WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2025 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is making $6 million in grant funding available for seafood processors to expand operations, transform the food supply chain and create new and better markets for the processing of invasive, wild-caught catfish. Additionally, USDA, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Agriculture, is launching a one-year pilot program to purchase up to $2 million through Section 32 of Chesapeake Bay blue catfish.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2025 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is making $6 million in grant funding available for seafood processors to expand operations, transform the food supply chain and create new and better markets for the processing of invasive, wild-caught catfish. Additionally, USDA, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Agriculture, is launching a one-year pilot program to purchase up to $2 million through Section 32 of Chesapeake Bay blue catfish.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2025 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is making $6 million in grant funding available for seafood processors to expand operations, transform the food supply chain and create new and better markets for the processing of invasive, wild-caught catfish. Additionally, USDA, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Agriculture, is launching a one-year pilot program to purchase up to $2 million through Section 32 of Chesapeake Bay blue catfish.

Rural Development’s $2.7 million investment will assist local community action agency rehab headquarters building

HENDERSON, NC, Aug. 5, 2025 — State Director Robert Hosford and members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development team participated in a groundbreaking ceremony with Franklin Vance Warren Opportunity Inc. in Henderson today.

Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc proposes to construct Gas Turbine 7 and 8 for power generation in Cochise County, Arizona.  Two 42-megawatt (MW) simple-cycle gas turbines will be constructed at the existing Apache Generating Station. 

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