USDA Announces Contracts for Round 5 of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it has approved contracts for the additional purchase of Farmers to Families Food boxes.
Recoopering Packaged Commodities For Food Aid Programs
This notice supersedes EOD-110 dated May 10, 2002. In accordance with applicable laws, steamship companies must load only clean, undamaged packaged commodities and execute an ocean bill of lading accurately reflecting the number of units loaded. The steamship line must not load bags or shipping containers deemed damaged beyond repair into any vessel hold, barge, or container. Any commodities that have been subject to detrimental or unsanitary conditions will not be accepted for loading.
Stipulation and Agreed Order Requires Dean Foods to Pay 90 Percent of its Post-Bankruptcy USDA Milk Marketing Obligations
On January 15, 2021, the Honorable Chief Judge David R. Jones, of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, signed and entered a Stipulation and Agreed Order (Order) between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which is serving as legal counsel of record for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Dean Foods.
The Order requires Dean Foods to pay within 30 days $29,082,182.26, which is 90 percent of its obligations to the USDA for milk marketed in April 2020 and May 2020.