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Accurate Source for Meat Safety Information
One of the things about the media that bothers me the most is how much inaccurate information is being shared so freely with peoplemost especially about our livelihood and the industry we work hard fo...
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Poster Contest Helps Promote Nutrition, Physical Activity
North Dakota youth will have a chance to show off their creativity and knowledge of good health and nutrition in this springs Eat Smart. Play Hard. poster contest. The contest is open to North Dakota...
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Farm to School Efforts Double in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn - March 9 - The number of Minnesota school districts purchasing fresh food from local farms has more than doubled in the last 15 months, according to a survey released today by the M...
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Warming the bleachers
    After a brief respite between football and basketball seasons, my Saturdays again are spent planted on the bleachers. My son, Thomas, is playing 5th-grade basketball and tomorrow wi...
Posted on 11/13/09 at 9:13 AM
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Study says 1 in 13 U.S. children have food allergy

CHICAGO — Food allergies affect about one in 13 U.S. children, double the latest government estimate, a new study suggests.

By Lindsey Tanner , June 22, 2011

Common goals, different countries

NAIROBI, Kenya — Gene White, a former director of child nutrition for California, and Namanga Ngongi, president of the agriculture development effort in Nairobi, Kenya, an undertaking started by the Seattle -based Gates Foundation, come from different worlds, but they have a dream in common: that every child in Africa will be offered a school lunch and that as much of the food as possible will be produced by local farmers.

By Jerry Hagstrom , May 23, 2011

Nutrition bill good, but could be better

SAN FRANCISCO — The child-nutrition bill signed into law by President Obama in December is less than ideal.

February 01, 2011

Serving up new standards

WASHINGTON — School meals can shift toward healthier foods that will involve changes in school food purchasing patterns as early as next fall under a proposed rule to update the nutrition standards for meals served through the national school lunch and breakfast programs that the Agriculture Department published in the Federal Register on Jan. 13.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 18, 2011

Congress sends child nutrition bill to Obama

WASHINGTON — More children would eat lunches and dinners at school under legislation passed Thursday by the House and sent to the president, part of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to end childhood hunger and fight childhood obesity.

By Mary Clare Jalonick , December 02, 2010

Child nutrition program bill will be addressed following election

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives failed to reauthorize the child nutrition programs with a big increase in funding for school lunch programs before leaving for a recess, but a key House Democratic aide said Sept. 29 that House leadership “will push hard for a vote in the lame duck” session after the election and a spokesman for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also said the Obama administration would push Congress to finish the bill.

By Jerry Hagstrom , October 05, 2010

Child nutrition bill awaits action as program expires Sept. 30

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives left the Capitol without acting on a child nutrition bill that would increase purchases of fruits and vegetables, whole grain, low-fat dairy and meat products for the schools, but the bill could come up again before the child nutrition programs expire on Sept. 30.

By Jerry Hagstrom , September 28, 2010

Bill boosting child nutrition program met by questions of how to fund it

WASHINGTON — The United Fresh Produce Association is urging passage of a child nutrition bill that would increase purchases of fruits and vegetables for the child nutrition program by Sept. 30, but the prospects are complicated by disagreements in the House of Representatives and among advocates over how to pay for the bill.

By Jerry Hagstrom , September 21, 2010

House committee approves child nutrition bill

WASHINGTON — House, Senate and White House officials are working together to attempt to find offsets to reauthorize the child nutrition programs before they expire on Sept. 30, a House Democratic leadership aide said July 15 after the House Education and Labor Committee approved the bill. But significant hurdles remain if Congress is to meet that deadline.

By Jerry Hagstrom , July 20, 2010

Audit: School funds may have gone to business

DES MOINES, Iowa — Thousands of dollars worth of Springville school district funds appear to have been used to buy food and supplies for a catering business and bar owned by the former food service department director, according to a state audit released Wednesday.

By Michael J. Crumb , July 08, 2010

Vilsack pushes child nutrition programs

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urged Congress July 1 to reauthorize the child nutrition programs this year with a big increase in spending and said a cut might be possible in the popular environmental quality incentives program and other USDA programs to pay for it.

By Jerry Hagstrom , July 06, 2010

Colorado congressman wants healthier school meals

DENVER — More kids could get vegetarian meals and nondairy food and drink in the school cafeteria under a bill proposed by Colorado congressman Jared Polis.

By Dan Elliott , May 21, 2010

House ag chairman wants food stamps’ ties to obesity examined

WASHINGTON — House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said May 13 that he would not support any increase in funding for the food stamp program unless its possible contributions to obesity are addressed.

By Jerry Hagstrom , May 17, 2010

A prescription for a healthier country

WASHINGTON — The nation’s nutrition programs now feed one in four Americans, but they need to eat more nutritious food, Agriculture Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon said May 10 while a foundation suggested that the food stamp program should be changed to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables.

By Jerry Hagstrom , May 17, 2010

Obama garden promotes good food, good nutrition

Obama garden promotes good food, good nutrition WASHINGTON —The White House kitchen garden is surely home grown, but it is not organic, and there are no plans for it to be.

By Mary Clare Jalonick , April 28, 2010

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