Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture Iowa’s corn farmers have worked with you through many hardships over the past few years, and we truly value the partnership we have with your Department. Allow livestock and biofuel producers to apply for assistance through the Department. Upcoming Events. Enter the News Archive. Last week, The Manila Times sponsored an online forum titled “Food Security through Agribusiness and Digitalization” that was moderated by Conrad Carino, the paper’s agribusiness editor, and myself as columnist. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is slated to get an aerial view Thursday of the double-hit to farmers this year: the derecho's hurricane-force winds that … Right now, it is due in late September and move it to later in the year like December. This is a public resource that was launched in January 2020 by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa Department of Transportation to increase the visibility of key metrics that impact the propane supply chain in Iowa. Twenty-four contiguous counties are also eligible for disaster relief programs including Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Butler, Carroll, Cass, Delaware, Dubuque, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Iowa, Jackson, Keokuk, Louisa, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Muscatine, Warren, Washington, Webster and Wright.The declaration makes farm operators in primary and contiguous counties eligible for assistance programs provided by the Farm Service Agency (FSA). © 2020 Iowa Corn Promotion Board/Iowa Corn Growers Association.
All rights reserved. Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Advisory Report to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The panel of experts was composed of Agriculture Secretary William Dar; Roberto Amores, chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and […] September. As of Aug. 26, 2020, U.S. propane stocks were at 90.8 million barrels or 86 days of supply. Calendar. Suggested citation: Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
The requests below came directly from our farmer members over the past few days. Due to the destruction and devastation across central Iowa and D3 drought in large pockets of the state, we need your help to provide Iowa farmers relief and aid so they can begin to rebuild and prepare for next year. We look forward to working with you and providing solutions for Iowa’s corn farmers to receive relief from the disaster that swept through the state destroying homes, farms, and livelihoods. Please ask the Administration to work with Congress to express the importance of any relief package that is passed out in the near future to include ag relief provisions. Corn farmers have long preferred solutions that further expand and develop markets for corn in all forms, but given the perfect storm of factors having immediate, harmful impacts on the farm economy, we would appreciate if you could honor these requests to help Iowa’s corn farmers across the state: Increase the indemnity on crop insurance for farmers either by granting 100% coverage level or at a minimum an increase in 10% coverage level from their chosen coverage level. 2020. On August 10, however, Iowa corn farmers were dealt a blow from a horrendous derecho storm. 27 New Saline County COVID-19 Cases. Have the premiums due for crop insurance be later in the year. UPDATE (July 28, 2020): Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig addressed reports Tuesday of individuals in Iowa receiving unsolicited seed shipments from China and other countries. Make sure CFAP payments are issued for 2020 crop and that the 2020 crop is paid on base acres and not harvested bushels due to so much corn being damaged due to Derecho. © 2020 Iowa Corn Promotion Board/Iowa Corn Growers Association.
Please instruct RMA to issue guidance not requiring farmers to harvest downed corn to receive a payout. All rights reserved.ICGA's Letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Corn farmers across the state have been trying to recover from many brutal hardships including trade wars, ethanol demand destruction, rising input costs, a global pandemic, a statewide drought, and lower corn prices. 2020. MOU Signing for Farmers Produce Project (July 1, 2020) Turnover of Solar Panel Donation (June 29, 2020) BAPTC Visit (June 20, 2020) RTF-ELCAC and Cordillera Regional Peace and Order Council (June 19, 2020) Awarding of SAAD Projects (June 19, 2020) Urban Agri MOU Signing (June 19, 2020) Culmination of 2020 Farmers’ and Fisherfolk’s Month Visit at Kadiwa Stalls and Aquaponics Set-up at …
September 3, 2020 The Honorable Sonny Perdue Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC 20250 Dear Secretary Perdue: Iowa’s corn farmers have worked with you through many hardships over the past few years, and we truly value the partnership we have with your Department. Aug 26, 2020 8:00 AM U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement in response to Senator Debbie Stabenow’s statements to the press regarding school meals: “Senator Stabenow’s statements Tuesday on USDA’s school meal feeding programs are disingenuous and either unintentionally or maliciously false. Provide farmers grain storage loans to assist in rebuilding all the storage damaged from the derecho. 2020 Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame Inductees Announced August 31, 2020. Ask Congress to work with SBA to fix PPP rules that will help farmers qualify for assistance by allowing gross revenue to be used in calculating qualifications for assistance. Farmers and landowners can learn more about the USDA disaster assistance programs, by visiting U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue declared 18 Iowa counties natural disaster areas Thursday, making farmers eligible for federal assistance in the wake of the effects of COVID-19 and the Aug. 10 derecho.Perdue also toured damaged Iowa farmland Thursday to assess the extent of the impact.Thursday’s Secretarial Derecho Disaster Declaration lists Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clinton, Dallas, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Marshall, Polk, Poweshiek, Scott, Story and Tama as primary disaster areas.