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On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture. [1] [2] Her firing was an administration reaction to media reports on video excerpts from her address to an event of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in March 2010 and commentary posted by ...
The Horse Protection Act of 1970 (HPA); (codified 15 U.S.C. §§ 1821–1831 [a]) is a United States federal law, under which the practice of soring is a crime punishable by both civil and criminal penalties, including fines and jail time.
Wildlife Services trapper setting a fox trap at an Steller's eider conservation area in Alaska Wildlife Services bird control agent at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Wildlife Services’ goals and objectives have evolved significantly since its establishment in 1895 as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Logo of United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's Veterinary Services, all a part of the Department of Agriculture. Source: Converted from EPS version found on an archived logo page (direct EPS URL ). The current website has the same graphic on the logo page, though it is in a .sit archive file. Author: U.S. Department of ...
The original seal was designed by A. H. Baldwin, a USDA artist. Permission (Reusing this file) Public domain, though other legal restrictions apply. USDA Symbols or logos are intended for the official use of the United States Department of Agriculture only. They are expressly excluded from use to imply endorsement of a commercial product or ...
Established in 1939 by Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace (later Vice President) through the merging and consolidation of various United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) bureaus and programs, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) was tasked with facilitating fair and efficient marketing of American agricultural products, including food, fiber, and specialty crops both ...
A USDA reorganization in 1961 led to the creation of the Statistical Reporting Service, known today as National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [1] The 1997 Appropriations Act [2] shifted the responsibility of conducting the Census of Agriculture from U.S. Census Bureau to USDA. Since then the census has been conducted every five years ...
USDA organic seal. The National Organic Program (NOP) is the federal regulatory framework in the United States of America governing organic food. It is also the name of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) program responsible for administering and enforcing the regulatory framework. The core ...