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Lawsuit challenges rule easing environmental reviews for animal confinements

By Christopher Walljasper/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 26, 2018

A dozen grassroots organizations have challenged a USDA rule change that would make medium-sized animal confinements exempt from environmental review before receiving government-backed loans from the Farm Services Agency.

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Inspectors find millions in improper payments made by the Farm Service Agency

By Acton Gorton | July 13, 2013

An Office of Inspector General audit of the Supplemental Review Assistance Payments program estimates that about $17 million in improper payments were made due to poor accounting and review practices.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

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  • Opinion: A potentially new organic foods rule that consumers can sink their teeth into

    Now there's a chance to right some of these wrongs. Last month USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register looking to improve organic integrity. The National Organic Program; Strengthening Organic Enforcement rule aims to provide greater certainty for consumers that when a product says it's organic it actually is organic.

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  • At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on race

    This article was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit journalism organization. When Xavier Morgan first enrolled in the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences in 2010, he wasn’t necessarily interested in farming.

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  • Farmers to Families Food Box Program Reaches 75 Million Boxes Delivered

    (Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 75 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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