Recommendation: To better ensure that requirements for tenant eligibility are met across the FLH portfolio, the
Secretary of Agriculture should direct the Administrator of RHS to seek legislative authority to gain access to the Department of Health and Human Services' National Directory of New Hires and make this information available to RHS so that they can assess the accuracy of tenant income documentation during supervisory reviews and other oversight activities.
After the NAL expanded the Gopher capacity in 1995, RIC loaded over thirty of its publications for
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman's six regional rural forums held throughout the country between April 1724 and concluding on April 25 with President Bill Clinton's National Rural Conference in Ames, Iowa.
Mike became
Secretary of Agriculture at the beginning of my second term.
He is serving his third term as Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture after being reelected for the second time in November of 2014.
Recommendation: To better ensure the safety of foods provided to children through the school meal programs, and to make improvements in three areas related to recalls affecting schools: interagency coordination; notification and instructions to states and schools; and monitoring effectiveness, the
Secretary of Agriculture should direct FNS to take the lead among USDA agencies to establish a time frame in which it will improve the USDA commodity hold and recall procedures to address the role of processors and determine distributors' involvement with processed products, which may contain recalled ingredients, to facilitate providing more timely and complete information to schools.
Perhaps you have heard of my proposal, because I wrote to the previous
secretary of agriculture several times.
This position was made clear earlier this year in a letter from an IRS official to the
Secretary of Agriculture about the tax treatment of crop hedging instruments.
Mike Johanns has informed me that he plans to return home to Nebraska, which means that his service as
Secretary of Agriculture must come to an end.
Kim Reynolds issued the following statement on Tuesday on Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northeys confirmation by the U.
Rajiv Shah, the former under
secretary of Agriculture for research, education and economics.
Recommendation: To improve USDA efforts to address civil rights issues and the participation of minority farmers and ranchers in USDA programs, the
Secretary of Agriculture should prepare and implement an improvement plan for resolving discrimination complaints that sets time frame goals and provides management controls for resolving complaints from beginning to end.
s former president and CEO, has been chosen as Arkansas' first
secretary of agriculture.
