News Releases for August 2002

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Aug. 30 0363.htm 0363.doc Veneman Announces Purchase of Up to 30 Million Pounds of Sweet Potatoes
Aug. 30 0362.htm 0362.doc Statement by Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman On Food Aid For Southern Africa August 30, 2002
Aug. 29 0361.htm 0361.doc U.S. Agricultural Exports to Surge in 2003 According to New USDA Forecast
Aug. 29 0360.htm 0360.doc President Bush Asks Congress For Additional Funding To Fight Forest Fires
Aug. 29 0359.htm 0359.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas as Disaster Areas Decision Allows Farmers and Ranchers to Receive Emergency Farm Loans
Aug. 28 0358.htm 0358.doc USDA Taps Emerson Trust For Humanitarian Food Relief
Aug. 28 0357.htm 0357.doc USDA Announces Peanut Program Features
Aug. 28 0356.htm 0356.doc USDA Celebrates Research That Eradicated the Screwworm
Aug. 27 0355.htm 0355.doc Veneman Announces Feed Assistance Program Sign Up To Begin Aug. 28 Outlines Details Of The $150 Million In Aid For Beef Cow-Calf Operators In Four States
Aug. 26 0354.htm 0354.doc $5 Million In Rural Cooperative Development Grants To Foster Economic Development In 19 States
Aug. 23 0353.htm 0353.doc Poultry Discussions Successfully Conclude; U.S. Exports To Russia To Continue
Aug. 22 0352.htm 0352.doc President Bush Announces Initiative To Restore Forest Health And Prevent Catastrophic Wildfires
Healthy Forests Initiative
Aug. 21 0351.htm 0351.doc USDA Officials Focus on Food Safety for Nation's Children
Aug. 21 0350.htm 0350.doc USDA Will Purchase Up to 22 Million Pounds of Freestone Peaches
Aug. 21 0349.htm 0349.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Five States As Disaster Areas
Aug. 20 0348.htm 0348.doc Veneman Names Scott Charbo as Chief Information Officer
Aug. 20 0347.htm 0347.doc Veneman Announces More Than $700 Million In Economic Development Projects For Rural Communities
FACT SHEET
Aug. 19 0346.htm 0346.doc Veneman Announces Signup Period For $1.3 Billion Peanut Buyout Program Eligible Farmers Have Two Payment Choices
Aug. 16 0345.htm 0345.doc Veneman Extends Emergency Haying And Grazing Through November 30
Aug. 16 0344.htm 0344.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Kansas And Nebraska As Disaster Areas Decision Allows Farmers And Ranchers To Receive Emergency Farm Loans
Aug. 14 0343.htm 0343.doc Veneman Designates 64 South Dakota Counties as Disaster Areas
Aug. 14 0342.htm 0342.doc Veneman Announces $100 Million to Improve Economic Conditions in Illinois Rural Communities
Aug. 13 0341.htm 0341.doc Transcript of Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert T. Zoellick at Press Briefing President George W. Bush's Economic Forum Waco, Texas Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Aug. 13 0340.htm 0340.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Georgia, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia as Disaster Areas
Aug. 13 0339.htm 0339.doc Veneman Announces Over $25 Million In Rural Development Projects To Assist Iowa Communities Secretary To Join President Bush At The Iowa State Fair On Wednesday
Aug. 12 0338.htm 0338.doc Transcript of Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services J.B. Penn Chief Economist Keith Collins Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Hunt Shipman and Congressman John Thune of South Dakota Regarding farm bill programs, the August crop report, drought assistance Washington, D.C.
Aug. 12 0337.htm 0337.doc Veneman Announces Distribution of Homeland Security Funds to Tribal Lands
Aug. 12 0336.htm 0336.doc Veneman Designates Eight Georgia Counties as Disaster Areas Decision Allows Farmers and Ranchers to Receive Emergency Farm Loans
Aug. 12 0335.htm 0335.doc USDA Announces Additional $10 Million In Funding Under Market Access Program
Aug. 12 0334.htm 0334.doc Veneman Announces $150 Million In Aid To Drought-Stricken Farmers and Ranchers Reiterates Administration Support for Fiscally Responsible Emergency Assistance
Aug. 12 0333.htm 0333.doc Veneman Provides Nearly $100 Million to Assist Minority and Small Farmers
Aug. 12 0332.htm 0332.doc Veneman Announces Oct. 1 Sign Up for Commodity Programs
Aug. 8 0331.htm 0331.doc Testimony of Ceremony to Honor USDA Summer Interns with Secretary Ann M. Veneman Washington, D.C. Thursday, August 8, 2002
Aug. 7 0330.htm 0330.doc USDA Assists Klamath Basin Farmers
Aug. 6 0329.htm 0329.doc Statement by Secretary Ann M. Veneman on President’s Decision to Appoint Tom Dorr as Under Secretary of USDA’s Rural Development Agency
Aug. 6 0328.htm 0328.doc USDA Approves $16.5 Million For Economically Troubled Rural Communities
Aug. 5 0327.htm 0327.doc USDA Dairy Program Signup Begins August 13
Aug. 5 0326.htm 0326.doc Secretary Veneman Tours Farming Operations in Connecticut
Aug. 2 0325.htm 0325.doc Agriculture Secretary Proclaims National Farmers Market Week August 4-10
Aug. 1 0324.htm 0324.doc Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on Senate Passage of Trade Promotion Authority August 1, 2002
Aug. 1 0323.htm 0323.doc Veneman Releases State Funding Allocations for Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Aug. 1 0322.htm 0322.doc USDA Report Finds Ethanol is Energy Efficient
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