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Rollins Applauds Arkansas Governor for Submitting SNAP Waiver to Make America Healthy Again

(Little Rock, AR, April 15, 2025) – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke L. Rollins joined Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders today as the Governor submitted a waiver to USDA to ban soda and candy from and include hot rotisserie chicken in Arkansas’s Supplemental Nutrition...

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ICYMI: Secretary Rollins Pens Op-ed in The Hill “Healthy and Affordable Food Is Within Reach for All Americans”

(Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins published an opinion piece in The Hill highlighting how the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, are prioritizing real food while also offering a blueprint for a healthy diet that is within reach for...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins delivers some remarks during the celebration of the unveiling of the new food pyramid at the HHS Headquarters, Washington D.C.

Four School Districts Receive National Awards for Trailblazing, Innovative Improvements to School Meals

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2024 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that four school districts in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, and Ohio received awards for their trailblazing and innovative efforts to improve the nutritional quality of meals for their students. This announcement was made in front...

National Press Club Newsmaker News Conference on National Child Nutrition Strategy

Speakers: Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. Sandra Hassink, M.D., FAAP, President, American Academy of Pediatrics; and Jessica Donze Black, Director of Child Nutrition, Pew Charitable Trusts Moderated by Anthony E. Gallo, Newsmaker Committee, National Press Club Tuesday...

USDA and FFAR Announce Innovation Challenge Projects Aimed at Catalyzing Transformative Research Solutions

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), today announced the three projects recommended for funding through the “Nourishing Next Generation Agrifood Breakthroughs” (Innovation Challenge). The...

USDA Announces Progress to Further Competition in Agriculture, Level Playing Field for Farmers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2023 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced progress on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) comprehensive approach to address the many, complex competition issues in agricultural markets and create a fairer playing field for small- and mid-size farmers. In...

Celebrating Washington, DC’s first Gold Award of Distinction in USDA’s HealthierUS School Challenge

February 04, 2011 Bruce Alexander, Director, Office of Communications and Governmental Affairs, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service

I had the pleasure of celebrating the top notch achievement of the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School as USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon and District of Columbia State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley presented this great school with a HealthierUS School...

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Risk Analysis Forum

February 27, 2020

The Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis sponsors a Science, Policy and Risk Forum series featuring prominent speakers on risk assessment and the intersection of risk assessment and economic analysis to build capacity in risk analysis. Four or more seminars are scheduled each year...

USDA Highlights the Life-changing Impact of the McGovern-Dole Program on African Day of School Feeding

Maputo, Mozambique, March 1, 2024 – Today U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small visited Mungazine Primary School in Mozambique, a USDA-supported school and school garden through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. During the...

USDA Shares 2015 Results: Building a Stronger Rural America through Partnership, Progress and Promise

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2015 – This year, millions of rural businesses and families were positively impacted by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investments in their communities. Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released a list of USDA's top achievements in 2015, demonstrating USDA's...