At a time when nutrition surveys show that three out of four American youths fail to eat the minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables recommended by health officials, a USDA pilot program is slipping a many of these foods into the classrooms of nearly 65,000 students in...
....USDA is planning to provide free breakfast to all students in a handful of schools as part of a pilot program to improve academic performance. Statistics indicate that on any given day 15% of children do not eat breakfast. USDA is looking to part ....USDA is...
US Dept. of Agriculture USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service official Jim Langley reported that participation and utilization in the corn sector were the same for 1993 and 1994. Langley, who is part of the committee reviewing the 199US Dept. of Agriculture USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service official Jim...
Livestock producers can get insurance...for the first time... under two pilot USDA programs. Both will offer coverage prices based on expected cash prices on the date the insurance policy ends. Coverage levels will range between 70% and 95% of expect Livestock producers can get insurance...for the...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture must be out to lunch. Why else would the agency end a successful Philadelphia schools breakfast and lunch program that feeds thousands of poor students daily? The highly regarded program has worked because it eliminates red tape, allowing more poor children to get healthy meals,...
The diets of many low-income individuals, like the U.S. population overall, do not meet federal dietary guidelines. With new authority provided as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, the Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have an opportunity to develop and...
In collaboration with CDC's Food Safety Office, NEHA's Epi-Ready Team Training program is reaching more areas across the U.S. in educating and training EH and public health professionals in foodborne disease outbreak investigation and surveillance. To help deliver the Epi-Ready Team Training workshops to an even broader audience, NEHA and...
Electronic Benefit Transfer cards can now be used to purchase food and produce at the Downtown Farmers Market, according to a news release this week from the Salt Lake Chamber's Downtown Alliance. EBT cards are cards on which the government transfers money for participants in social programs...
The Downtown Alliance in Salt Lake City will receive $15,893 from a federal program to promote farmers markets, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. The alliance plans to use the funds for a pilot of an "alternative purchase program" to buy and use electronic benefits transfer...
The budget for the State of New York includes an innovative $20 million program for the development of a cellulosic ethanol pilot facility, which will produce ethanol from cellulosic biomass sources such as willow, switchgrass, paper mill wastes, and agricultural and forestry residues. The New York...
Education News Parents Can Use, the U.S. Department of Education's monthly television program, wrapped up the spring season with its June edition, "Child Health and Nutrition," which highlighted national and local programs that encourage children to eat right and exercise. The show also discussed nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department...
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 March 2006-US ARS: Studies at the Children's Nutrition Research Center CNRC in Houston, Texas, show a link between preteen girls' vegetable consumption and their weight.C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23032006 The CNRC is operated by the Baylor College of Medicine...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service announced the launch of the Agricultural Conservation Enrollees/Seniors pilot project with the National Older Worker Career Center to obtain the services of experienced workers on a temporary basis. ACES workers will help program employees with survey, design, installation,...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that the USDA will join the "Walk a Mile in My Boots" initiative, a work-exchange program between agriculture producers and government employees. Initial participation will involve up to 10 pilot exchanges in Utah, Arizona, California, Colorado and...
A $40,000 grant to the Propane Education & Research Council from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help fund partnerships to develop and adopt innovative farming technologies. The grant, awarded by the department's Natural Resources Conservation Services under the Conservation Innovation Grants Program,...
A new collaboration of federal, state, and private industry representatives called the Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism Initiative will embark this fall on a nationwide effort to assess vulnerabilities in the nation's food supply. Teams of terrorism experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,...
Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture hopes to fit up to 50,000 cows with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags within a few months. The effort is part of a pilot program to test an increasingly common animal identification technology. The small tags - which will be placed in the animals'...
EPHRAIM -- Computer chips were implanted into six elk last week, the first domesticated elk in the nation to be entered into the National Animal Identification System. The implants are part of a Utah Department of Agriculture and Food pilot program to "speed up and streamline our...
EPHRAIM -- Computer chips were implanted into six elk last week, the first domesticated elk in the nation to be entered into the National Animal Identification System. The implants are part of a Utah Department of Agriculture and Food UDAF pilot program to "speed up and streamline...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- New Asurion Division Focused On Managed Wireless Services for Government, Including Device Logistics, Rental, Upgrades, Help Desk and Invoice Simplification Tennessee-based Asurion today announced that its new Asurion Managed Wireless AMW group has entered into a contract to manage wireless devices for the District of...
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