Two opportunities to serve on USDA advisory committees

Press release

Advisory Committee on

Minority Farms

The Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement published a Federal Register Notice — https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-11-06/pdf/2018-24208.pdf —to solicit applications for the Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers. The committee works in the interest of the public to ensure socially disadvantaged farmers have equal access to USDA programs and shall advise the secretary of agriculture on:

1. The implementation of section 2501 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279);

2. Methods of maximizing the parti...