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27 Jul 2018
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2018 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding this week’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling (PDF, 115 KB) on newer mutagenesis methods, otherwise known as genome editing.
27 Jul 2018
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced USDA is inviting comments on the implementation of the e-Connectivity Pilot Program established in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 on March 23, 2018.
26 Jul 2018
USDA: President Trump Stands by American Farmers
By Secretary Sonny Perdue
USA Today
July 25, 2018
In the Olympics, if opposing athletes continuously broke the rules while the officials let them get away with it, American fans would want our coaches to raise a fuss. That’s what has been happening in the arena of international trade, and Preside...
26 Jul 2018
Federal and State Officials
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX): “Our president stood up to a bully and now he’s standing up for rural America. This is the right fight to have, but in the meantime, our producers have got to live, while this fight’s going on.”
24 Jul 2018
(Washington, D.C., July 24, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take several actions to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation. President Trump directed Secretary Perdue to craft a short-term relief strategy to protect agricultural pr...