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Final Countdown for 2011 Feds Feed Families Campaign

August 12, 2011 Katie Yocum, Northeast Region Coordinator, Rural Development, with assistance from Mike Boyle, Iowa Rural Development and Cindy O’Grady, New Jersey Rural Development

Today, Secretary Vilsack announced that, during the month of July, USDA employees donated more than 270,000 pounds of canned goods and fresh produce to feed families across the country as part of the Feds Feed Families food drive! That means USDA employees have worked together to donate more than...

Food and Nutrition Rural

In Charles City Iowa, USDA Officials Listen to Advice from Business Leaders at White House Roundtable Event

July 27, 2011 Riley Gardam USDA Iowa Communications Intern

Access to capital, cutting edge technology and more responsive government programs will help drive rural innovation, according to participants at a White House Business Council roundtable in Charles City, Iowa yesterday. Facilitated by USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Jonathan...

Rural Technology

A USDA Acting Deputy Under Secretary Meets with Those Affected by Midwest Flooding

June 24, 2011 Eric Redden, USDA Farm Service Agency, Missouri

On the heels of Secretary Vilsack’s visit to the Midwest last week to inspect Missouri River flood damage to area farms and communities, Farm and Foreign Service (FFAS) Acting Deputy Under Secretary Karis Gutter stopped by Mounds City, Missouri and Hamburg, Iowa to hear from local producers, and to...

Rural

USDA Official Discusses First-Hand Assessment of Agricultural Lands Ravaged by Missouri River Flood

June 15, 2011 Vicki Schurman, USDA Nebraska Public Information Officer

On June 15, 2011 USDA's executive director of the National Food and Agriculture Council, John Berge spoke with agricultural producers and businesses regarding his tour of the agricultural lands devastated by the Missouri River flood and the assistance that USDA has to provide in this time of need...

Rural

USDA Receives Main Street Leadership Award in Recognition of Commitment to Rural Communities

May 26, 2011 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa

More than 1,300 community developers from 47 states converged on Des Moines, Iowa, this week to attend the 2011 National Main Streets Conference organized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A key theme repeated during the conference illustrated how communities with healthy Main Street...

Rural

Childhood Landscape Inspires a Conservation Career

May 16, 2011 Julie A. MacSwain, NRCS

The views are breathtaking in what’s known as the “driftless area” in the upper Midwest, which encompasses parts of southeast Minnesota, southwest Wisconsin, northeast Iowa and northwest Illinois. This unique area was bypassed by retreating glaciers during the end of the last Ice Age several...

Conservation

Working Together to Preserve Soil, Water

April 27, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack & Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson

At Monty Collins' cattle operation near Pleasantville, a rotational grazing system helps protect soil and water quality. A few miles away near Prairie City, Gordon Wassenaar has used no-till farming and a precision sprayer for years to minimize pesticide use and runoff from his soybean fields. We...

Conservation Energy

USDA Rural Development Programs Making a Big Impact in Western Iowa

April 13, 2011 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa

On Friday, April 8th I had the opportunity to see first-hand the many ways USDA Rural Development programs are improving the lives of rural Americans when I visited a variety of USDA-funded projects in Anita, Logan and Woodbine in western Iowa. In Anita, I met Duane Murphy, the local fire chief and...

Initiatives Energy Rural

For an Iowa Family of 10, a New Home Make Dreams Come True

February 28, 2011 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa

While the past couple years have been a financial challenge for many Americans, the goal of achieving the American Dream of homeownership remains strong. This is especially true in Iowa where USDA Rural Development has been very involved in making homeownership a reality for thousands of rural...

Initiatives Rural

USDA Rural Development Telehealth Funding Serves a Sparsely-Populated Four-State Area

February 24, 2011 Tammi Schone, USDA South Dakota Public Information Officer

In rural America, especially in frontier regions of South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska the shortage of health care professionals tends to be pronounced. For example, 55 of South Dakota’s 66 counties, or 83 percent of all counties, are designated Primary Care Health Professional Shortage...

Rural Technology
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