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...by Reps Paul Tonko and Antonio Delgado, wrote in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue....
...Sonny Perdue, the US secretary of agriculture, on Thursday unveiled environmental goals for the farm sector that included locking more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the soil....
...Sonny Perdue, US agriculture secretary, told the Financial Times that his food inspectors would be “boots on the ground” to ensure workers were safe....
...Among those shut out were Sysco and US Foods, national distributors who were mentioned by Sonny Perdue, the US agriculture secretary, during the rollout of the effort....
...Sonny Perdue, US agriculture secretary, told the Financial Times last week that government meat quality inspectors would now also act as “boots on the ground” inside plants to monitor their compliance with...
...Sonny Perdue, US agriculture secretary, previously said he did not expect another programme this year....
...The department is now working on a second direct payment scheme worth as much as $20bn after trade talks between the US and China fell apart, agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue said last week....
...“Once [farmers] fully understand what you’ve done here, they’ll be fine,” Sonny Perdue, Mr Trump’s agriculture secretary, told the president at a cabinet meeting in late October....
...Sonny Perdue, the US agriculture secretary, wrote in a tweet on Friday morning....
...Sonny Perdue, the US agriculture secretary, told reporters at the forum it would be “premature” to predict how many agricultural products China would buy under a trade deal....
...Sonny Perdue, agriculture secretary, extended a January 15 deadline for filing applications....
...Sonny Perdue, US agriculture secretary, last week told reporters that the federal Commodity Credit Corporation was among the tools under consideration to offset farmers’ losses....
...Sonny Perdue, the US agriculture secretary, said on Twitter last Friday that China had already committed to buying an additional 10m metric tonnes of soyabeans....
...Sonny Perdue, US secretary of agriculture, has said USDA economists were calculating the effects of trade disruptions as he weighs federal assistance to farmers hurt by lower prices....
...Sonny Perdue, US agriculture secretary, said he believed there would be sufficient demand for the surplus....
...That included appeals from Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, and Sonny Perdue, the agriculture secretary, who warned that pulling out of Nafta would lead to massive job losses in farm states and others...
...Sonny Perdue, the US agriculture secretary, said Thursday that he had raised the concerns of farmers with Mr Trump....
...The US is suspending imports of fresh beef from Brazil, agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue announced on Thursday, citing “recurring concerns about the safety of the products” sent to the American market....
...Brazilian Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said he would travel to the US to “fight” for that market, after his American counterpart Sonny Perdue announced on Thursday he was suspending imports of fresh...
...In his first major action as agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue unrolled the new guidelines at an elementary school in Virginia, announcing schools would no longer need to meet 2017-2018 targets for sodium...
...Sonny Perdue, agriculture secretary, hailed the deal as “a dramatic improvement for the US sugar industry”....
...Importantly, they also want the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to join CFIUS so that food security issues get greater attention....
...Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture, said the export surge demonstrated that demand for US agricultural commodities was “stronger than ever”....
...We are met there by U Htay Oo, who is secretary-general of the USDA, but also happens to be the junta’s minister of agriculture and irrigation – a dual role that belies the USDA’s claims to be an independent...
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