LivestockEight more meat and poultry firms adopt the voluntary Product of USA label
More than 30 companies have now committed to USDA's Product of USA label, which marks meat and poultry born, raised, harvested and processed in the United States.
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HealthUS adds $27m in farm to school grants and $50m for school kitchen equipment
USDA's Farm to School grants reach more than $47 million across 149 projects in 2026, and a further $50 million will help schools buy cold storage and stoves to cook local food.
LivestockTexas Panhandle cattle raisers win USDA loan guarantee for their own beef plant
A USDA loan guarantee will back a $24.6 million commercial loan for a locally owned beef processing plant in Dimmitt, Texas, set up by 36 cattle-raising investors to process about 400 head a day.
AgrotechUSDA opens Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson to help farmers save water
The 15,650-square-foot ARS complex will study rainfall, runoff and soil erosion in semi-arid land, using rainfall simulators, drought studies and drones, and turn the results into tools for farmers and ranchers.
LivestockUSDA plans $57 million in grants for small meat processors in 40 states
The Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program has 147 tentative awards worth $57,424,130, pending congressional allotment, to help independent processors expand and give ranchers more local outlets.
EnvironmentUSDA puts $325 million into 42 conservation projects, from Iowa cover crops to salmon
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program pairs federal money with private partners; the Iowa project alone aims to plant more than 300,000 acres of cover crops and cut nitrogen losses by about 3.3 million pounds.
AgrotechUSDA and NASA agree to bring satellite data into US crop estimates
A memorandum signed on 24 October commits USDA and NASA to work together on Earth observation, geospatial analytics and statistical methods for agricultural statistics, with acreage and yield estimates named as a goal.
AgribusinessUSDA opens $5 billion in loan guarantees for meat, poultry and seafood processing
The new SPUR Guaranteed Loan Program will back commercial lenders with a 90 percent guarantee so that small and regional plants can expand and diversify processing, with seafood included for the first time.
AgribusinessUSDA picks eight fertilizer plants for $573m in FIELDS funding
The eight projects add up to more than $1.34 billion of proposed investment in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur fertilizer, and USDA estimates they could cut nitrogen prices by 4.4% and potash by 5.3%.
LivestockUSDA adds a five-state cash cattle price report as negotiated trade shrinks
From 26 October the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service will publish an extra regional cash cattle report pooling Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, as negotiated cash trade has fallen below 18 percent of purchases.
AgribusinessUSDA to pay farmers $8 billion in one-time Harvest Fuel Relief this harvest
The Harvest Fuel Relief program will make one-time payments to US farmers to cover part of modeled 2026 losses from market disruptions and higher input costs, with rates for Title I crops due in November.
AgribusinessUSDA ties US cotton purchases by Bangladesh and three others to apparel tariff relief
Under its Great American Cotton Plan, USDA will let growers buy multiple crop-insurance endorsements from 2027, and its Foreign Agricultural Service will verify US cotton purchases by Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia and Malaysia in exchange for tariff preferences on their apparel.
AgribusinessUSDA awards $86.6 million for 609 specialty crop projects
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is funding about 609 state projects in 56 states and territories through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, for fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops.