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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department is threatening to shut down three California poultry processing facilities linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 278 people across the country. USDA said Wednesday that Foster Farms, owner of the three facilities, has until tomorrow to tell the department how it will fix the problem...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette's New Iberia Research Center has been cited for three violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The violations include the death of a rhesus macaque, the fractured arm of another rhesus macaque, and the temporary escape of five capuchin monkeys...

The meat was sold to retailers, wholesalers and food service distributors across the United States

Our tax dollars at work once again.  This time it was in the form of cultural sensitivity training being held at the USDA.  Now, mind you, the USDA is supposed to serve farmers and ranchers and promote food safety.  You can see how sensitivity training would help out farmers nationwide...

3rd District Congressman Jeff Landry today requested U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to reconsider the proposed closure of the St. Mary Parish Farm Services Agency facility. In a letter to Vilsack he highlighted Louisiana’s unique geography and how the USDA’s St. Mary proposal does not meet their stated criteria for office closures.

The US Department of Agriculture has designated the entire state as natural disaster areas due to our collection of weather related problems over the past year.

Louisiana State University researchers are getting $17 million in federal funds to study how to turn sugar cane and sorghum into biofuels.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette New Iberia Primate Research Center is under fire again

Say, "Goodbye, Bon Voyage, & Arrivederci to the Food Pyramid. This week the United State Department of Agriculture made a move that it hopes will help Americans understand what foods they should be eating and in what quantities.

State agriculture officials say the U.S. Department of Agriculture has guaranteed that Morganza Spillway farmers whose crops were damaged by flooding caused by the Mississippi River will be eligible for crop insurance payments in accordance with their crop insurance policies.

Louisiana farmers in 36 parishes may be eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) low-interest emergency loans due to losses caused by drought that began March 23, 2010 and continues, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said.

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture designates most of Louisiana as a natural disaster area for crop losses from continuing drought that began March 23.