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    Shots - Health News
    President Trump delivers remarks last week on the Farmers to Families Food Box program at Flavor 1st Growers and Packers in Mills River, N.C.
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    How Trump's Food Box Initiative Overpaid And Underdelivered

    Sep 03, 2020
    The Trump administration has been buying food from farmers and getting it to food banks. Food banks, however, say the program was not set up to deliver food efficiently.
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    The Salt
    People load their vehicles with boxes of food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank earlier this month in Los Angeles. Food banks across the United States are seeing numbers and people they have never seen before amid unprecedented unemployment from the CO
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    Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger

    May 22, 2020
    The charitable organizations called food banks are getting a lot of attention and donations right now. But they aren't nearly as important or effective as SNAP, formerly known as food stamps.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    A farmer leads dairy cows from the pasture to the milking barn at a creamery in Gallipolis, Ohio. The USDA launched a $3 billion plan to distribute food to families, called the Farmers to Family Food Box Program.
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    USDA Secretary Says Despite Plant Closures, He Does Not Anticipate Food Shortages

    May 15, 2020
    Sonny Perdue says he expects "85-90% production in probably a very few days or weeks." He also says the government is stepping up efforts to buy food from farmers and distribute it to families.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store in December 2019.
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    Coronavirus Pandemic Complicates Getting Groceries With SNAP

    Apr 30, 2020
    Most SNAP benefit recipients need to shop in person— a problem for those at high risk for COVID-19
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    Nevada Snow Pack Is Behind After A Strange Winter

    Apr 13, 2020

    Nevada is about to enter the dry season.

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    Three million people would lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits under a proposed rule change by the Trump administration.
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    Comment Period Ends For Proposal That Would Cut SNAP Benefits For Millions

    Nov 01, 2019
    The Trump administration says it wants to close a "loophole" that allows states to give benefits to those who would not otherwise be eligible by raising or eliminating income and asset limits.
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    National
    The Trump administration is moving two Department of Agriculture agencies — the National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the Economic Research Service — out of Washington, D.C.
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    Critics Of Relocating USDA Research Agencies Point To Brain Drain

    Sep 10, 2019
    More than 250 employees have quit, and others are expected to follow suit before the Sept. 30 deadline for reporting to work in the Kansas City area. Critics of the move say research will suffer.
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    The Salt
    Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, shown here on Capitol Hill in April, announced last month that most staff from two USDA research agencies were being relocated to the Kansas City region.
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    Scientists Desert USDA As Agency Relocates To Kansas City Area

    Jul 17, 2019
    The mandatory move imposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on most of the workers at two vital research agencies has been criticized as a "blatant attack on science."
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    Business
    Walmart and Amazon began offering online purchases with food stamps in April as part of the USDA's pilot program. Now, both companies are expanding services for low-income shoppers.
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    Using Food Stamps For Online Grocery Shopping Is Getting Easier

    Jun 26, 2019
    Walmart is expanding a program for food stamp recipients to buy groceries online and pick them up in stores. It's the latest move to give them more options in the era of online shopping.
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    National
    President Trump listens to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during a signing ceremony. The USDA wants to move two vital research agencies out of Washington D.C.
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    Critics Say USDA Plan To Move Federal Agencies Could Hurt Research Vital For Farmers

    May 18, 2019
    A plan to move USDA research groups out of Washington, D.C. has towns clamoring for high-paying jobs. But critics say it's part of an effort to gut objective research and cut jobs at the two agencies.
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    The Salt
    Companies are using new gene-editing tools to alter the DNA of food crops. One of these products is a soybean with a healthier kind of oil.
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    Will Gene-Edited Food Be Government Regulated?

    May 10, 2019
    Crops that have had their DNA tweaked with new gene-editing tools are entering the food supply. But governments are struggling to figure out how — or even whether — to regulate them.
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    Science
    The United States Department of Agriculture announced on Tuesday it will discontinue a research program that involved killing thousands of cats. The agency has been under pressure to put an end to the program.
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    USDA Terminates Deadly Cat Experiments, Plans To Adopt Out Remaining Animals

    Apr 02, 2019
    Scientists infected the cats with toxoplasmosis and later killed them. Bipartisan members of Congress complained about the practice and the agency ended the program.
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    USDA Awards Grants To Help Expand Broadband, Telemedicine In Rural Nevada

    Nov 19, 2018

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded some $600,000 in grants for two Nevada projects designed to improve broadband access in 15 rural counties. 

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    Business
    Jennie-O is recalling 45 tons of raw turkey that may be tainted by salmonella.
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    Jennie-O Recalls Ground Turkey Following One Case Of Illness From Salmonella

    Nov 16, 2018
    Over 45 tons of meat could potentially harbor the food-borne illness, the USDA said. More recalls from other companies could follow, as the government tracks a widespread outbreak of the same strain.
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    The Salt
    Shoppers who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may find it harder to use their benefits to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables at farmers markets like this one in Minneapolis, Minn., while the goverment changes contractors.
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    Technical Difficulties May Jeopardize Food Stamps At Farmers Markets

    Nov 05, 2018
    If a popular app used by many farmers markets to process federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits is no longer offered next spring, consumers' access to fresh produce may be stalled.
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    Shots - Health News
    The House bill calls for $65 million in loans and grants, administered by the USDA, to establish "association-style" health plans that likely wouldn't have to cover hospitalization, prescription drugs or emergency care.
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    Farm Bill Could Undo Part Of The Affordable Care Act

    May 08, 2018
    A provision now in the House's bill would help agricultural groups set up association health plans. Such plans, favored alternatives of the GOP, aim to reduce health care costs for small groups.
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    The Salt
    Carrageenan is an extract derived from seaweeds like these harvested off Hingutanan Island, Bien Unido, Bohol, Philippines.
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    USDA Defies Advisers, Allows Carrageenan To Keep Organic Label

    Apr 04, 2018
    The Department of Agriculture says organic-food makers can keep using carrageenan, a thickener made from seaweed. It's the second time this year that it has reversed an organic board's recommendation.
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    The Salt
    Chickens are carried through a poultry slaughterhouse on mechanical arms.
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    USDA Denies Poultry Industry's Request To Speed Up The Slaughter Line

    Jan 31, 2018
    The National Chicken Council says a faster line speed would increase efficiency and modernize systems. Food safety advocates are calling the move a victory for both workers and consumers.
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    The Salt
    Chickens are carried through a poultry slaughterhouse on mechanical arms.
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    Too Fast For Safety? Poultry Industry Wants To Speed Up The Slaughter Line

    Oct 27, 2017
    The National Chicken Council says the move is needed to keep pace with international competitors. But worker and food-safety advocates say this could cause more stress and injuries.
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    Politics
    Sam Clovis, a conservative talk radio host who ran President Trump's campaign in Iowa, has been nominated to a top scientific post at the Department of Agriculture even though he lacks a science background.
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    Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

    Sep 04, 2017
    Sam Clovis has a doctorate in public administration, is skeptical that humans have a role in climate change and pushed theories suggesting former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
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    The Salt
    The destructive diamondback moth has spread across the world and mutated to become immune to each new chemical pesticide designed to slay it.
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    Scientists Try To Fight Crop Damage With An Invasive Moth's Own DNA

    Aug 28, 2017
    The diamondback moth attacks cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, costing farmers billions of dollars every year. But will these lab-bred insects inherit the same stigma as genetically modified crops?
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    13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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    Bears Can Face Summer Challenges In Roadside Zoos

    Aug 17, 2017
    Even when the Animal Welfare Act is followed, bears may not live in conditions that many would find reasonable for such large, intelligent animals to flourish, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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    Newscast headlines

    Washoe Schools To Raise Lunch Prices

    Jul 05, 2017

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is requiring the Washoe County School District raise its lunch prices by 10 cents for the next school year.

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    The Salt
    This is a citrus micro-grafted plant following recovery from liquid nitrogen.
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    To Protect Fruit Crops, Scientists Are Putting Them Into A Deep Freeze

    Jun 14, 2017
    In an effort to save irreplaceable varieties from disease and other threats, plant cuttings are being "cryopreserved" — plunged into liquid nitrogen for later revival.
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    The Salt
    The Agriculture Department established research centers in 2014 to translate climate science into real-world ideas to help farmers and ranchers adapt to a hotter climate. But a tone of skepticism about climate change from the Trump administration has som
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    Will The Government Help Farmers Adapt To A Changing Climate?

    May 18, 2017
    The livelihoods of farmers and ranchers are intimately tied to weather and the environment. But they may no longer be able to depend on government research to help them adapt to climate change.

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