USDA

USDA May Add More Details To Meat Product Labels

Steve Roisum — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Consumers could soon know a lot more about where their meat comes from: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering adding more information to product labels.

Prairie Du Chien To Get New Hospital In 2014

Maureen McCollum — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:20:15 +0000

Residents in rural southwest Wisconsin will be getting a new hospital by the end of next year in Prairie du Chien.

What Makes A Place 'Rural?' The USDA Has An Answer

Steve Roisum — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000

For the first time in its history, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is looking to clearly define what it considers to be “rural.”

USDA Helps Beginning Farmers With Loans

Steve Roisum — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:28:09 +0000

The recently passed Farm Bill extension gutted several popular programs for beginning and organic farmers. The USDA is stepping in to help these farmers by providing low interest loans.

Feds Cut Conservation Stewardship Funding

Steve Roisum — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:49:50 +0000

Funding has been cut for a popular federal program that pays Wisconsin farm and forest landowners who work to conserve their land.

Mukwonago Students Boycott School Lunch

Kristen Durst — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:42:59 +0000

Many students in the Mukwonago School District are boycotting school lunches. At issue are the new federal lunch rules, which increase the servings of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and cap the number of calories.

Pam Harris is the Food Service Supervisor for the Mukwonago District. She says that Monday 70 percent of her students boycotted school lunch. "On a Monday menu we would typically have about 850 students taking the reimbursable lunch at our high school, and we had an actual count of 291 yesterday."

USDA official discusses new school lunch standards

Kristen Durst — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:57:36 +0000

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Undersecretary was in Madison Wednesday to highlight new standards for school lunches taking effect this fall.

The new guidelines will require schools to serve more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Schools will only be allowed to serve fat free or low fat milk, and calories will be limited based on the age of a child.