Live Animal Requirements – AAA – Live Animal Specification (pdf) or (RAAA) (pdf)

USDA Certified Information - G-154 Specification (pdf), effective April 2025

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With funding provided by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Local Foods Purchasing Agreement, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will establish Aandanjigewin, a food distribution program that will:

The Native Village of Port Heiden, a Federally Recognized Tribe, is located in Alaska, 424 miles southwest of Anchorage. Local Food Distribution program’s purpose is to provide tribal members with locally sourced food purchased from local food producers, our salmon fishermen. This program will buy salmon from local salmon fisher producers, store, ship, and deliver food to all community members and all other tribal members. The beneficiaries will be community members and tribal members of the Native Village of Port Heiden, both the salmon fisher producers and the community members.

Docket Number: AMS-SC-23-0063
Effective Date: August 2, 2024

Summary

This rulemaking implements a recommendation from the Florida Tomato Committee (Committee) to increase the assessment rate established for the 2023-2024 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.025 to $0.035 per 25-pound container of tomatoes or equivalent. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

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Docket Number: AMS-SC-24-0037
Nominations Due: September 3, 2024

Summary

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations from specialty crop stakeholders to serve on the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee (FVIAC).  The deadline for nominations is Sept. 3, 2024

The Secretary of Agriculture will appoint up to 25 individuals, for two-year terms, to succeed members whose terms expire Oct. 28, 2024.