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The Agriculture Department protects and educates consumers about Oklahoma’s agricultural and livestock productions. Its purpose is to develop and execute policy on farming, agriculture, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources ...
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry ... Oklahoma Water Resources Board. ... Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry: 515: $87.8: Promotes agriculture, provides aid to farmers and ranchers, inspects food products and protects State forests Conservation Commission: 62: $68.2: Protects and conserves the State's soil and water agricultural resources
An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister for agriculture.
The National Finance Center (NFC) is a federal government agency division under the United States Department of Agriculture that provides human resources, financial and administrative services for agencies of the United States federal government. NFC's customer base is composed of more than 130 federal organizations, representing all three ...
The Agricultural Act of 2014 [1] (also known as the 2014 U.S. Farm Bill, formerly the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013) is an act of Congress that authorizes nutrition and agriculture programs in the United States for the years of 2014–2018. [2] The bill authorizes $956 billion in spending over the next ten years. [3]
The most recent of these Farm Bills, the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill), authorizes policies in the areas of commodity programs and crop insurance, conservation on agricultural lands, agricultural trade (including foreign food assistance), nutrition (primarily domestic food assistance), farm credit, rural economic ...
FNS was established on August 8, 1969 as an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The first administrator was Edward J. Hekman, former president of the Keebler Company, who served until the end of the Ford administration. [4] In 2018, 11.1% of the US population were deemed as being 'food insecure'. [5]