The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the appointment of 12 members to serve on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. The 12 appointees will serve three-year terms, effective immediately, through Oct. 31, 2024.

The newly appointed members are:

The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is accepting applications from farmers, growers, and other producers for its 2022 farmers market season that opens Friday, May 6, 2022. Farmers, growers and producers located in Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, and preferably within a 200-mile radius of the District of Columbia, are encouraged to apply.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today the addition of testing peanuts that are destined for the European Union (EU) to the Laboratory Approval Program for Analysis of Aflatoxins (LAP-Aflatoxin) at the request of the American Peanut Council (APC). The addition will ensure peanuts destined for the EU meet testing requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 401/2006. Laboratories must be approved under the LAP-Aflatoxin to provide aflatoxin testing for peanuts destined for the EU, effective January 24, 2022.