News Releases for September 1998

United States Department of Agriculture

updated September 30, 1998

0397 USDA Announces Wheat Donation to Dominican Republic
0396 USDA Announces Details of Conservation Farm Option Pilot Program
0395 Statement by Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman on Meeting with Governors and Members of Congress from Northern Plains States
0394 Clinton Administration's New Food Safety System Reduces Threat of Salmonella FSIS Backgrounder
0393 Glickman Announces $2.5 Billion in Export Credit Guarantees
0392 More than Half of Food Stamp Recipients Now Use EBT Cards
0391 President's Council to Hold Public Meeting on National Strategic Plan for Food Safety
0390 Remarks of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman National Association of State Departments of Agriculture South Carolina (Via Satellite)
0389 M/A Public Schedule for Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
0388 USDA Opens Regional Export Outreach Office in Sacramento
0387 M/A Deputy Agriculture Secretary Richard Rominger to Visit Pittsburg
0386 Glickman Announces Water Quality Education Grants that Target Under-Served Communities
0385 USDA Announces New Insurance Plan to Protect Farm Income
0384 USDA Co-op Grants "Open Doors of Rural Opportunity"
0383 USDA Sets Next CRP Sign-up for October-December
0382 Glickman Announces Outreach Workshop for Limited Resource Farmers
0381 USDA and USAID Announce Wheat Donation to North Korea
0380 Radio Address of Secretary Dan Glickman on Helping America's Farmers and Ranchers
0379 USDA Announces Contract Commodity Payment Rates for FY 1999
0378 M/A Public Schedule for Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman September 19-25, 1998
0377 Statement of The Honorable Dan Glickman Secretary of Agriculture on the Farm Crisis September 17, 1998
0376 Statement of Agriculture Dan Glickman on Presentation of the WIC Farmers Market Petition September 17, 1998
0375 Glickman to Receive Petitions Supporting WIC - Farmers Market Program
0374 USDA Approves $13 Million Effort to Create Rural Jobs
0373 Draft Unified AFO Strategy Executive Summary
Photocopy of Executive Summary
The draft Strategy is available at http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/cleanwater/afo/
0372 USDA, EPA Announces Joint Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations V.P. Gore Statement on New Administration Policy on Harmful Runoff
0371 New USDA Web Site Offers Kids a Sneak Peek into the Science behind Agriculture
Science For Kids homepage
0370 USDA Announces 1999 Tariff-Rate Quotas for Refined, Specialty, and Raw Cane Sugar
0369 Glickman Announces First Donation Under Food Aid Initiative
0368 Biobased Products Get Boost from "Greening the Government" Executive Order
0367 USDA Awards 16 Grants for Market Development, Improvement
0366 M/A Public Schedule for Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
0365 Remarks of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman Asian Long-Horned Beetle Announcement Chicago, Illinois- September 11, 1998
0364 Glickman Announces New Policy Provisions for Marketing Assistance Loans
0363 Secretary Glickman to Visit Southeastern Massachusetts
0362 New Law Gives Farmers Choice of When They Get Production Flexibility Contract Payments
0361 Glickman Announces New Steps to Fight Asian Longhorned Beetle
0360 USDA Announces $16 Million in Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants
0359 Rural Partnership Director Named
0358 Remarks of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman Radio Message on Preserving America's Farmland September 7, 1998
0357 M/A Public Schedule for Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman September 6-12, 1998
0356 Vice President Gore Announces $17.2 Million for Farmland Preservation
0355 USDA Report Offers Assessment, Predictions of Grain Transport Situation
0354 School Meals Application Offers Check-off for Health Insurance
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