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Docket Number: AMS-SC-22-0058
Effective Date: May 10, 2023
Summary
This rule implements a recommendation from the Kiwifruit Administrative Committee (Committee) to increase the assessment rate established for the 2022–23 and subsequent fiscal periods. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.
Contact
AMS has entered into a cooperative agreement with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund (CLF) to administer Local Meat Capacity grants. For questions regarding the administration of your award, please email: localmcap@communityloanfund.org
What are the requirements for my grant?
Eligible applicants for Local MCap grants include business entities (regardless of legal structure) engaged in meat and poultry processing, including rendering animal carcasses or byproducts. Eligible entities include Tribes and Tribal Entities, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, and State or local government entities. Private entities must be independently owned and operated, and all applicants must be domestically owned.
Program Updates
The funding opportunity for the 2023 Local Meat Capacity Grant Program is closed.
The NOSB will meet to discuss substances petitioned for addition to or deletion from the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List), substances due to sunset from the National List in 2025, and recommendations on organic policies.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a referendum May 8-30, 2023, for pear growers to vote on whether to continue their federal marketing order. Growers who produced pears in Oregon and Washington between July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, are eligible to vote.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that beginning July 1, 2023, suppliers of food purchase programs administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will no longer be required to use high security seals on trucks, railcars, vessels and other transports when transporting food products purchased to support those programs but will be allowed to use traceable, tamper evident, flat metal, wire or plastic commercial security seals.
Kansas schools are facing challenges providing school meals to students due to supply chain issues, rising prices and staffing shortages. There is an urgent need to support schools in implementation of Child Nutrition Programs and fueling students for success. Historically, small‐scale Kansas producers have had difficulty entering the school market, facing barriers with school delivery requirements, cashflow, and processing compacity compared to established broadline distributors. Socially disadvantaged producers face additional systematic challenges that impede their ability to compete.
