Usda

Rachael Pardon Concept essay

Dr. Beauclair

05/03/2012

USDA

Soaring for Today to Stop Hunger Tomorrow

United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) mission is to provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on public policies, science and the proper management. Agriculture is the art and business of cultivating soil raising livestock and producing crops. May 15th, 1862 President Lincoln signed legislation to create the United States Department of Agriculture. It was the middle of the civil war; Lincoln signed to expand and transform American farming, signing one of the most important documents in legislation, the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act gave public land and acres to individuals who were twenty one or older and met specific criteria. The USDA is continuing to strive towards educating, monitoring and adding acts to help control our agriculture.

USDA now has several acts in law and has expanded the programs that help consumers and the industry. USDA has seven programs. Assisting rural communities: with grants, loans, and disaster assistance and insurance programs. Conservation: This helps owners with conserving their soil and other natural resources. Food and nutrition is to make sure American families have food they offer snap, wic and child nutrition programs. Marketing and trade monitor the importing and exporting of goods. Last but not least education and research in which they study agricultural and economic research and statistics. Under these programs we can monitor and control the food epidemic the way it is handled and...