News Releases for December 1997

United States Department of Agriculture

updated December 31, 1997

0458 USDA Launches One-Stop WEB Access to Crop Reports and Forecasts
0457 Clinton Administration Provides Disaster Assistance to Livestock Producers in New Mexico
0456 Correction to Release No. 0455.97
0455 Credit Guarantee Allocations to Republic of Korea Announced (See Release No. 0456.97)
0454 National Forest Receipts Yield $234 Million to States
0453 USDA Releases Annual Report on the Cost of Raising a Child
0452 USDA Offers Korea $1 Billion in GSM-102 Credit Guarantees
0451 Secretary Announces Expansion of Canola Insurance Program
0450 Glickman Building A Legacy for Consumers and Farmers with 1997 Accomplishments
0449 USDA Names Members and Alternate to Universal Cotton Standards Advisory Committee
0448 Secretary Glickman to Review USDA's 1997 Accomplishment
0447 Vice President Gore Announces Arrest of 2,199 Fugitives in Nationwide Sting
0446 USDA Announces American Indian Livestock Feed Program
0445 Remarks by Deputy Secretary Rominger at the American Seed Trade Association Annual Meeting
0444 Glickman Announces New Efforts to Improve Civil Rights, Assist Small Farmers
0443 Remarks of Secretary Glickman Proposed Organic Standards USDA --December 15, 1997
0442 Glickman Announces Publication of National Organic Program Proposed Rule
0441 Glickman Announces Highly Successful CRP Sign-up, With 9.5 Million Acres Offered
0440 M\A Public Schedule for Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
0439 Glickman Appoints Members to USDA's Committee of Scientists
0438 M\A Glickman to Announce National Organic Program Proposed Rule
0437 USDA Begins Collection of the 1997 Census of Agriculture
0436 M/A Glickman and Cuomo Announce Partnership to Help Canal Corridor Communities
0435 Remarks of Secretary Dan Glickman Professional Agricultural Workers Conference Tuskegee University
0434 Thornton Named as Director of USDA's Office of Outreach
0433 USDA Accepting Applications for 1890 National Scholars Program
0432 Paradis Named Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
0431 1998 Release Dates for USDA's Supply and Demand Estimates Report
0430 Questions & Answers on Prevented Planting
0429 Glickman Announces Increased Prevented Planting Coverage
0428 Remarks of Secretary Dan Glickman American Chamber of Commerce in Agentina Buenos Aires, Agentina -- December 3, 1997
0427 Glickman to Speak at Tuskeegee Monday
0426 Testimony of Michael V. Dunn Assistant Secretary Marketing and Regulatory Programs During Open Hearing
0425 USDA Issues Program Announcements Extending $150 Million in Credit Guarantees to 12 Countries under the Facility Guarantee Program (FGP)
0424 Remarks of Secretary Dan Glickman 'Statement of Intent' Signing Ceremony for U.S./Argentine Consultative Committee on Agriculture, Buenos Aires, Argentina
0423 Glickman Names Members to National Watermelon Promotion Board
0422 Media Advisory: USDA Publishes 1997 Agriculture Fact Book
0421 USDA Announces Public Law 480 Country Allocations for Fiscal 1998
0420 1998 U.S. Ag Exports Projected at $58.5 Billion

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