News Releases for October 2002

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Oct. 31 0467.htm 0467.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Wyoming As Agriculture Disaster Areas Decision Allows Farmers and Ranchers to Receive USDA Assistance
Oct. 28 0466.htm 0466.doc Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman Regarding Pork Checkoff Challenge October 28, 2002
Oct. 25 0465.htm 0465.doc Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman Regarding The Death Of Sen. Wellstone October 25, 2002
Oct. 28 0464.htm 0464.doc USDA and Florida Announce $153 Million Conservation Program For Florida, Including The Everglades
Questions & Answers
Oct. 25 0463.htm 0463.doc USDA Awards $2.5 Million To Study Nutrition, Obesity And Food Assistance Program Issues
Oct. 25 0462.htm 0462.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Nevada And South Dakota As Agriculture Disaster Areas
Decision Allows Farmers And Ranchers To Receive USDA Assistance

Oct. 24 0461.htm 0461.doc Veneman Names James Richards Director Of Intergovernmental Affairs
Oct. 23 0460.htm 0460.doc Members Named To The National Watermelon Promotion Board
Oct. 22 0459.htm 0459.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Eleven States As Agriculture Disaster Areas
Decision Allows Farmers And Ranchers To Receive Usda Assistance
Oct. 22 0458.htm 0458.doc Bush Administration Continues Increased Investments For Ethanol And Bioenergy Projects
Oct. 22 0457.htm 0457.doc Veneman Announces $75 Million In Grants To Spur Economic Growth And Investment In U.S. Rural Communities
Oct. 22 0456.htm 0456.doc USDA Names Members And Alternates To The National Tobacco Advisory Committee

Oct. 21 0455.htm 0455.doc U.S. And Peru Establish Consultative Committee On Agriculture
Oct. 21 0454.htm 0454.doc USDA Helps Launch Free, Portable Nutrient Database
Oct. 21 0453.htm 0453.doc Veneman Marks Implementation Of USDA National Organic Standards
Oct. 18 0452.htm 0452.doc Trancript of Press Conference with Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman,
Deputy Under Secretary Hunt Shipman, Chief Economist Keith Collins and Deputy Budget Director Scott Steele.

Oct. 18 0451.htm 0451.doc Veneman Designates Counties In Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio And Pennsylvania As Agriculture Disaster Areas Decision Allows Farmers And Ranchers To Receive Emergency Farm Loans

Oct. 18 0450.htm 0450.doc United States Says New China Regulations Should Free Up Soybean Exports
Oct. 18 0449.htm 0449.doc Ground Broken Today For New Poisonous Plant Research Lab
Oct. 18 0448.htm 0448.doc Veneman Reviews Farm Bill Implementation Progress
Aggressive Action By USDA on Farm Bill and Related Agriculture Programs to Provide more than $13 Billion into U.S. Farm Sector
Oct. 18 0447.htm 0447.doc USDA To Hold Briefing on Available USDA Programs 2002 Farm Bill Will be Highlighted by USDA Officials at Petersburg, Va.
Oct. 18 0446.htm 0446.doc National Research, Extension, Education And Economics Advisory Board Expands; New Member Appointed
Oct. 17 0445.htm 0445.doc USDA Provides Update On Listeria Recall
Oct. 16 0444.htm 0444.doc Veneman Awards $4 Million In Grants To Community Food Projects
Oct. 16 0443.htm 0443.doc Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman Regarding World Food Day October16, 2002
Oct. 16 0442.htm 0442.doc Veneman Names One Member And One Alternate Member To American Egg Board
Oct. 15 10/hhs.htm hhs.doc HHS, USDA Take Next Step In Obesity Fight

Oct. 15 0441.htm 0441.doc USDA Names Members To National Dairy Board

Oct. 15 0440.htm 0440.doc Veneman Pledges Commitment To Increase Minority Homeownership In Rural America
Oct. 15 0439.htm 0439.doc Groundbreaking For New Biological Control Lab
Oct. 11 0438.htm 0438.doc USDA Kicks Off National School Lunch Week By Promoting Nutrition Education And Food Safety Awareness
Oct. 9 0436.htm 0436.doc Statement by Undersecretary For Farm And Foreign Agricultural Services J.B. Penn Regarding USDA Actions On Federal Warehouse Programs Washington, D.C. October 9, 2002
Oct. 9 0435.htm 0435.doc Veneman Announces Beef Promotion Board Appointments
Oct. 8 0434.htm 0434.doc Remarks by USDA Deputy Secretary Jim Moseley Biobased Products Stakeholders Forum Washington, DC October 8, 2002
Oct. 8 0433.htm 0433.doc Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman Regarding the Intervention of President Bush
in the West Coast Port Work Stoppage October 8, 2002
Oct. 8 0432.htm 0432.doc Veneman Announces National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board Appointments
Oct. 8 0431.htm 0431.doc Veneman Announces Drought Payments To Livestock Producers To Begin Today
Oct. 8 0430.htm 0430.doc

USDA Issues Guidelines For Interim Voluntary Country Of Origin Labeling
Questions and Answers

Oct. 7 0429.htm 0429.doc Veneman Announces $1.5 Million in Cooperative Agreements With 1890 Institutions
Oct. 7 0428.htm 0428.doc USDA Names 2002 1890 National Scholar Recipients Accepts Applications For Next School Year
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Veneman Announces Lamb Promotion Board Appointments
Oct. 4 0426.htm 0426.doc USDA Provides WEB-Based Tool to Help Producers Choose Base and Yield Options
Oct. 4 0425.htm 0425.doc Veneman Announces Purchase of Nearly $57 Million in Dried Fruits and Tree Nuts for Child Nutrition Programs
Oct. 3 0424.htm 0424.doc Veneman Names New Members To Research, Extension, Education And Economics Advisory Board
Oct. 3 0423.htm 0423.doc Lady Bird Johnson Receives First Arboretum Gold Medal Award
Oct. 3 0422.htm 0422.doc U.S and Mexican Research Agencies Formalize Agricultural Research and Education Partnership
Oct. 3 0421.htm 0421.doc

Veneman Designates Three Texas Counties as Primary Agriculture Disaster AreasDecision Allows Farmers and Ranchers to Receive Emergency Farm Loans

 

Oct. 2 0420.htm 0420.doc Public Workshops On Improvements To Greenhouse Gas Reporting Scheduled

Oct. 2 0419.htm 0419.doc United States and Mexican Agriculture Trade Officials Launch Regular Forum to Resolve
Trade Differences
Oct. 2 0418.htm 0418.doc USDA Modifies Formula To Calculate Oilseed Bases For The Direct And Counter-Cyclical Program
Oct. 1 0417.htm 0417.doc USDA Announces $2 Million In Grants Under New
Export Program For Specialty Crops
Oct. 1 0416.htm 0416.doc Veneman Announces Payments Of Nearly $1.6 Billion For Conservation Reserve Program
Oct. 1 0415.htm 0415.doc October 1 Begins Sign-Up For Several Farm Bill And Disaster Assistance Programs
Oct. 1 0414.htm 0414.doc USDA Announces 2002-Crop Sugar Marketing Allotments and Allocations
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