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The process of giving money to farmers who were discriminated against is about to start
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has requested information from farmers, advocates, lawmakers and others on its loans to agricultural producers and debt relief programs. This comes after farmers complained the department has been unfairly targeting them and their crops. This comes as the US Congress passed a bill to address farmers’ complaints of discrimination…
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Black farmers want justice from the USDA
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking feedback on a program to help farmers identify who has been discriminated against over the past 19 years. The USDA said the program’s administrator should be a third-party administrator and that it should conduct an outreach to the farmers who borrowed from the agency. The program will…
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The USDA approved the first vaccine for honeybees.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued conditional licenses for honeybee vaccines to help combat American Foulbrood Disease. The honeybee vaccine doesn’t have a injection in it. Instead, it’s mixed into “queen feed,” which the worker bees consume, according to Dalan Animal Health. The queen bee excretes vaccine fragments in her ovary after consuming…