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Owning the Cooperative Identity: USDA Celebrates National Co-op Month

October 30, 2023 James Wadsworth, Branch Chief, Cooperative Services at USDA Rural Development

This October USDA is celebrating National Cooperative Month, an observance that recognizes the cooperative model, its many influential uses, and how cooperatives benefit their members in numerous ways. There are at least 30,000 cooperatives in the United States providing more than $700 billion to...

Rural

Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) Pesticide Data Program Celebrates 30 Years

October 20, 2021 Brenda Foos and Chris Pappas, AMS Science & Technology Monitoring Programs Division

Join Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) Pesticide Data Program (PDP) in celebrating their 30 th anniversary! Since 1991, the program has monitored pesticide residues in the U.S. food supply, with a focus on sampling foods most consumed by infants and children.

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