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.
USDA Seeks Nominees for the National Honey Board
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominees for the National Honey Board. The Secretary of Agriculture will appoint individuals to succeed eight members and alternates whose terms expire Dec. 31, 2021. The deadline for nominations is June 1, 2021.
The board is composed of 10 industry members and 10 alternates. The board is seeking one first handler, one importer, one producer, one marketing cooperative representative and their alternates to serve three-year terms in office.
USDA Seeks Nominees for the National Peanut Board
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking eight nominees for the National Peanut Board to replace one producer member and one alternate for Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and the at-large region. The Secretary of Agriculture will appoint individuals to succeed members whose terms expire on Dec. 31, 2021. Appointed members and alternates will serve three-year terms.