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The Agriculture Department has a lot of services, funding and tools for specialty crop farmers – including a new $100 million program to help producers sell their crops overseas - and the USDA wants to make sure that those farmers take advantage of them, Deputy USDA Secretary Xochitl Torres Small told reporters Thursday.
USDA wants to hear more information from dairy industry stakeholders in response to the National Milk Producers Federation petition request to amend five provisions of the federal milk marketing order, as well as additional a more narrowed request from the International Dairy Foods Association and Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, with a pre-hearing information session planned for Friday, June 16.