United States Department of Agriculture

Ministry of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture
Set up:	February 9, 1889
Seat:	Jamie L. Whitten Building , Washington, DC
Supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	Sonny Perdue
Deputy	Stephen Censky
Household:	$ 19.4 billion (2006)
Employees:	109,832 (2004)
Homepage:	usda.gov

The United States Department of Agriculture (amtl. United States Department of Agriculture , abbreviated USDA ) is part of the Federal Government of the United States and is headquartered in Washington, DC (1400 Independence Ave., SW). The main building is on the north side of Independence Avenue and is opposite the South Building, which was built in the 1930s . It is primarily concerned with the issues of agriculture and agriculture .

history

The US Department of Agriculture Administration Building , the headquarters of the USDA in Washington, DC

The authority was founded in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln after it was originally located as a small office in the patent office and mainly collected and distributed new seeds and plants there. Over time, statistics on crop yields and fertilization methods were added, and since almost every second American was a farmer at the time, the need for a new, separate ministry soon arose.

Lincoln created the Bureau of Agriculture , headed by a commissioner without cabinet status, and called it the People's Department . In 1889 it became what is now the US Department of Agriculture. In 1942, the Department's press department alone had 711 permanent and 20,543 part-time employees, costing US taxpayers $ 11.9 million a year in salaries and printing. It now has around 110,000 employees.

tasks

With a budget of 94.6 million dollars ( fiscal year 2006), this ministry represents the concerns of farmers and farmers , is responsible for food security and the regulation of the agricultural market , forest and landscape protection , agricultural science and research and for the economic development of the rural America. It also promotes healthy eating and fights hunger both within the United States and abroad.

The post-September 11, 2001 terrorist threat raised concerns that terrorists might attack the food chain, and a report published in July 2005 once again demonstrated the vulnerability of the system. As a result of this fact, the Ministry of Agriculture has moved into the center of the prevention of terrorism and several programs have been started to raise awareness among employees, manufacturers and food processors, and to intensify cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Security .

In 2006, the department hit the headlines for removing the term hunger in its latest annual report on food supplies to the US population and replacing it with the euphemistic term " very low food security" . According to the report, 12% of Americans, over 35 million people, belong to the group at risk from very low food security.

The US Department of Agriculture reported monthly on the needy US citizens who took advantage of the state food program SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Approximately 43 million US citizens received the modern version of the Food Stamps in October 2010 , groceries by credit card for an average of $ 133.76 per person per month, based on the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) . As of January 2006, the increase was about 16 million.

Subordinate authorities

• Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
• Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
• Economic Research Service (ERS)
• Farm Service Agency (FSA)
• Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
• Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)
• Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
• Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)
• National Agricultural Library (NAL)
• National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• Office of Community Development (OCD)
• Risk Management Agency (RMA)
• Rural Housing Service (RHS)
• United States Forest Service (German Forest Administration of the United States)

List of Agriculture Ministers

No.	image	Surname	State	Term of office from	Term of office until	in the President's Cabinet
01		Norman Jay Colman	Missouri	February 15, 1889	March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland
02		Jeremiah McLain Rusk	Wisconsin	March 6, 1889	March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
03		Julius Sterling Morton	Nebraska	March 7, 1893	March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland
04th		James Wilson	Iowa	March 6, 1897	March 5, 1913	William McKinley , Theodore Roosevelt , William Howard Taft
05		David Franklin Houston	Missouri	March 6, 1913	February 2, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
06th		Edwin Thomas Meredith	Iowa	February 2, 1920	March 4, 1921
07th		Henry Cantwell Wallace	Iowa	March 5, 1921	October 25, 1924	Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge
08th		Howard Mason Gore	West Virginia	November 22, 1924	March 4, 1925	Calvin Coolidge
09		William Marion Jardine	Kansas	March 5, 1925	March 4, 1929
10		Arthur Mastick Hyde	Missouri	March 6, 1929	March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
11		Henry Agard Wallace	Iowa	March 4, 1933	4th September 1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt
12		Claude Raymond Wickard	Indiana	September 5, 1940	June 29, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
13		Clinton Presba Anderson	New Mexico	June 30, 1945	May 10, 1948	Harry S. Truman
14th		Charles Franklin Brannan	Colorado	June 2, 1948	January 20, 1953
15th		Ezra Taft Benson	Idaho	January 21, 1953	January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
16		Orville Lothrop Freeman	Minnesota	January 21, 1961	20th January 1969	John F. Kennedy , Lyndon B. Johnson
17th		Clifford Morris Hardin	Nebraska	January 21, 1969	17th November 1971	Richard Nixon
18th		Earl Lauer Butz	Indiana	2nd December 1971	4th October 1976	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
19th		John Albert Knebel	Oklahoma	4th November 1976	20th January 1977	Gerald Ford
20th		Robert Selmer Bergland	Minnesota	January 23, 1977	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
21st		John Rusling Block	Illinois	January 23, 1981	February 14, 1986	Ronald Reagan
22nd		Richard Edmund Lyng	California	March 7, 1986	January 21, 1989
23		Clayton Keith Yeutter	Nebraska	February 16, 1989	March 1, 1991	George Bush
24		Edward Rell Madigan	Illinois	March 8, 1991	January 20, 1993
25th		Alphonso Michael Espy	Mississippi	January 22, 1993	December 31, 1994	Bill Clinton
26th		Daniel Robert Glickman	Kansas	March 30, 1995	January 19, 2001
27		Ann Margaret Veneman	California	January 20, 2001	January 20, 2005	George W. Bush
28		Michael Owen Johanns	Nebraska	January 21, 2005	September 20, 2007
29		Edward Thomas Schafer	North Dakota	January 28, 2008	January 20, 2009
30th		Thomas James Vilsack	Iowa	January 20, 2009	20th January 2017	Barack Obama
31		Sonny Perdue	Georgia	April 25, 2017	officiating	Donald Trump

See also

• USDA soil classification
• USDA climate zone classification

Web links

Commons : United States Department of Agriculture  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elizabeth Williamson: Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry . In: The Washington Post . November 16, 2006 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed on August 5, 2016]).
2. ^ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In: usda.gov. Retrieved August 5, 2016 .