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The Con Act, as amended, currently serves as the authorizing statute for USDA's agricultural and rural development lending programs. The Act includes current authority for the following three major Farm Service Agency (FSA) farm loan programs: farm ownership loans, farm operating loans, and emergency disaster loans.
Agricultural Research Service: VI: 600–699: Natural Resources Conservation Service: 7: VII: 700–799: Farm Service Agency: VIII: 800–899: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (Federal Grain Inspection Service) 8: IX: 900–999: Agricultural Marketing Service (Marketing Agreements and Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts) 9 ...
USDA program participants, defined as "persons" in 7 CFR 12 Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation, [1] converting a wetland not provided an exemption in 7 CRR 12.5(b), after December 23, 1985, to make production on an annually tilled (crop) production lose eligibility for most federal farm program benefits. [2]
[7] The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation was continued as an agency under the secretary of agriculture by acts of June 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 323) and February 16, 1938 (52 Stat. 38). The agency was consolidated with Division of Marketing and Marketing Agreements into Surplus Marketing Administration by Reorg.
The Under Secretary for Rural Development (USDA(RD)) is a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Agriculture and principal advisor to the United States Secretary of Agriculture responsible for oversight of the department's rural development programs and policies.
The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), also known as the National Agricultural Research Center, [3] is a unit of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. It is located in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, [4] with sections within the Beltsville census-designated place.
The USDA Farm to School Grant Program is funded through the use of grants by the USDA, with 2019 seeing nearly $10 million awarded supporting 3.2 million students in over 5,400 schools across 42 states. [13] The program also seeks to encourage young children to pursue careers related to the creation and distribution of food supplies.
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