U.S. Department of Agriculture

2:05 p.m. — The Department of Agriculture will be taking Christmas trees to mulch, free of charge. A staging area can be found near the Agriculture Department's Mangilao office. Residents are requested to unload trees and stack them neatly at the staging area.  

THE regional office of the Department of Agriculture will intensify its goat raising program because of the very huge markets that wait for production.  

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. (Dow Jones)--U.S. farmers are taking advantage of a monthlong price rally, improved winter weather, and arrival of a new tax year to sell greatly increased quantities of old-crop grain this week.  

DAVAO CITY, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- Representatives from the Department of Agriculture (DA) regional office here rushed to Sta. Maria, Davao del Sur on Tuesday to investigate the death of about 20 pigs in the area.  

Early one cold November morning, actress Annie Wersching leads Kiefer Sutherland to an "armored" SUV with dark windows parked outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture building.  

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing next week on the nomination of former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be U.S. Agriculture Secretary.  

Government and university researchers say they're stumped by a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honeybee colonies in North America.This is clearly very complicated. It's also clear that there are lots things killing bees, said Dennis van Engelsdorp, chief bee researcher at...  

TRENTON -- Students in grades 2-12 are to participate in the 2009 Conservation Poster Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, State Soil Conservation Committee, the New Jersey Association of Conservation Districts and the local Soil Conservation Districts....  

Farmers will soon have the opportunity to set the record straight about the issues that affect them - and to help ensure that policies and programs are based on accurate, real-world data by participating in the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey, conducted by the U.S. Department of...  

Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Deputy U.S. Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner will become president and chief executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, according to the Washington-based group.  

PARADOX — A gray mare and two other horses were removed from property in Paradox last week after their owner relinquished them to the Colorado Department of Agriculture.  

WASHINGTON — With the publication of an interim final regulation in the Federal Register next week, the United States Department of Agriculture announced changes to both Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) qualifications, program payment limitations, and direct attribution for Farm Service Agency (FSA...  

Monsanto (NYSE: MON) won't be selling its Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean seeds in Europe, but at least the U.S. farmers it sells them to will be able to hawk their final product there. The European Union recently approved the genetically modified soybeans for import.  

Gov. Linda Lingle has asked U.S. Agriculture Secretary Edward Schafer to declare an agricultural disaster for Oahu and Kauai following last month's heavy rains and flooding.  

Thousands of Texans are struggling during current tough economic times and are turning to SNAP/Food Stamps in record numbers. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, SNAP/Food Stamp participation increased in Texas from 2,683,648 to 2,952,749 from August 2008 to September 2008. As times...