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Expanding Commodity Markets and Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge and Values into Climate Smart Agriculture

January 24, 2023 Heather Dawn Thompson, Director of the USDA Office of Tribal Relations

USDA’s Office of Tribal Relations is excited about the Department’s new investments through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. We’re investing a total of $3.1 billion in 141 projects. More than 20 tribes and tribal groups across the nation are partnering in many of these projects.

Climate Initiatives

Make America Healthy Again Actions Taken by the Trump Administration

December 18, 2025

The Trump Administration is leading a bold, coordinated effort to Make America Healthy Again, by restoring common sense to federal nutrition policy, empowering states, supporting farmers, and improving the quality of food available to American families. Under President Trump and Secretary Rollins...

President Trump with Secretary Rollins and Secretary Kennedy

MAHA Commission Unveils Sweeping Strategy to Make Our Children Healthy Again

(Washington, September 9, 2025) – The Make America Healthy Again Commission today released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy, a sweeping plan with more than 120 initiatives to reverse the failed policies that fueled America’s childhood chronic disease epidemic. The strategy outlines...

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Dr. George Washington Carver

February 03, 2021

Dr. George Washington Carver Good morning, When President Abraham Lincoln established the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than 150 years ago, he called it “The People’s Department.” The moniker stuck and began to inform USDA’s mission over generations to be a federal agency that made a positive...

USDA Releases Updated Guideline to Strengthen Substantiation of Animal-Raising and Environment-Related Claims on Meat and Poultry Labels

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of an updated guideline that makes recommendations to strengthen the documentation that supports animal-raising or environment-related claims on meat or poultry product labeling. Today’s action...

Growing Farmers

September 08, 2016 Spencer Miller, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Fresh. Local. Honest. This motto underscores the guiding philosophy of the Minnesota Food Association (MFA). To achieve its goals of promoting healthy food and regenerative agriculture, the MFA offers workshops for farmers and helps immigrants learn how to farm sustainably in local conditions. The...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

USDA Invests $7.4 Million in 25 Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Efforts

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $7.4 million in 25 selected grants that support urban agriculture and innovative production. Selected grant recipients, including community gardens and nonprofit farms, will increase food production and access in...

Equity

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s Remarks at the G-20 Open Forum on Sustainable Agriculture Environmental Sustainability Panel

FLORENCE, September 16, 2021 – The world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic repercussions. The current global situation underscores the need for us to come together and act urgently and comprehensively to end hunger and poverty, face the challenges of climate...

2024 Agricultural Outlook Forum Program

February 14, 2024

Program At-a-Glance Thursday, February 15 8:00 - 9:15am Opening Program Welcome: Deputy Secretary Torres-Small USDA previews the major challenges we will face as we cultivate the future of agriculture. 2024 Agricultural Economic & Foreign Trade Outlook: Chief Economist Seth Meyer USDA’s Chief...

2025 Agricultural Outlook Forum Program

June 12, 2025

Program At-a-Glance Thursday, February 27 8:00 - 9:15 AM OPENING PROGRAM 2025 Agricultural Economic & Foreign Trade Outlook: Chief Economist Seth Meyer USDA’s Chief Economist unveils USDA’s Outlook for the domestic agricultural economy and trade for the year. Slides 1:30 - 3:00 PM CONCURRENT...