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A new improved open data platform is now available for stakeholders of transportation of Ag products domestically and overseas.  "And we thinks it's making the platform even bigger and better than it's ever been in its previous two iterations. And ...

May was National Beef Month. And the Agricultural Marketing Service used the occasion to roll out a series of market-based educational tools  for cattle producers to better understand and use the Department's Mandatory Livestock Reporting Data. AM ...

The flurry of last-minute regulations from the Trump administration includes a final rule concerning Domestic Hemp Production. The USDA published the final rule notice in the Federal Register Tuesday. The U.S. Hemp Growers Association said the final rule appears to address many of the concerns the organization expressed during a comment period ...

When looking back on 2020, how is the year viewed by the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service? "The Coronavirus is one of the areas that shaped a lot of the activities of the ag marketing service," said AMS Undersecretary Greg Ibach ...

Ever heard the terms, "high volume," or "high value," domestic agriculture highways? "We were able to identify the 17 different we call them, high value agricultural highways. They account for more than 80% of all agricultural tonnage by truck movement ...

The USDA published it’s 2019 Pesticide Data Program’s Annual Summary. The report shows that nearly 99% of the tested samples had pesticide residues below benchmark levels established by the EPA. The two agencies work together every year to identify which foods get tested on a rotating basis. The Agricu ...

The USDA has reopened the comment period for domestic hemp production under the interim final rule. "Last October, we published the interim final rules for the production of hemp," noted Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator, Bruce Summers ...

Under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, better known as CFAP, the USDA's AMS runs the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. "As of this week we will have delivered about 80 million boxes of food to 10,000 charities around the United States and the four territories," noted AMS administrator Bruce Summers ...

USDA's Farmers to Families Food Box Program started in May, indented to help not only hungry Americans, but the farm community devastated by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. "We have contracted with about 200 suppliers to provide food boxes to 501c3 and governmental organizations in different styles of distribution events, but mostly trunk-to-trunk style distribution events," sai

USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program has been helpful to producers in states like Mississippi. "Our boxes contain sweet potatoes from Ponotoc, MS,  from Fury Eagles and NW Farms, chicken nuggets from Cook Foods in Morton, MS, ham and smoked sausage from Poke’s Meat in McGee, MS, and  Cook chicken strips from southern New Hands in Mosell MS," noted Andy Mercier from local partner