Slow Food® Utah

ORGANIZATIONS – GOVERNMENT

Listing Governmental organizations that provide information and community resources regarding food. This listing is not meant to be all–inclusive. However, it does aim to provide information relevant to those interested in food or Slow Food issues. (Of course, more will be added as it is discovered.)

SECTIONS:  Utah Government  |  United States Government

• Agriculture and Food, Utah Department of

  

  Protecting and promoting Utah agriculture and food.

• The Utah’s Own Acreage Enhancement Pilot Grant Program will be awarding a total of $10,000 to five Utah farmers to help them expand the number of acres under vegetable production... The application deadline is March 31st, 2007.
• Annual Statistical Bulletin — "The Utah Annual Statistics Bulletin is a historical five year series for all major crops, livestock and related data. It also includes county data. This publication is issued annually each fall." Includes data for 2003 – 2006.
• Organic Certification Program (State of Utah)

  Organic Production is a system that is managed by both state and federal standards for the response to site specific conditions in the growing or processing of foods, which conditions are managed by integrated cultural, biological and mechanical practices. It is the intent of organically grown or produced products to foster the cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve bio-diversity. This program is intended to serve producers, processors and consumers of agricultural products. The goal is to manage a process that will maintain the integrity of food products produced without the use of restricted chemical inputs.

  Current Licensee Lists:

• Licensed Organic Farms – Produce
• Licensed Organic Farms – Livestock
• Licensed Organic Farm – Processor
• Extension Service, Utah State University (USU)

  

  "Practical Solutions for a Complex World." "USU Cooperative Extension delivers research–based education and information to Utahns regardless of how close or far they live from campus. Educational programs that address agriculture; community and economic development; 4–H and youth; natural resources; and family, food and nutrition, are all delivered via a variety of methods and are offered through a federal, state and county partnership. Utah State Cooperative Extension has offices that reach every county. The Cooperative Extension System to responds to critical and emerging issues with research–based, unbiased information."

• County Offices
• Family Resources
• Food & Nutrition
• Food Sense Nutrition Education Program
• Food Sense Resources and Links
• Home Gardening
• Utah Cares

  

  "Utah Cares is a free, confidential tool that helps you find state and community services. Utah Cares can help connect you with providers that offer basic services, such as, housing, food, childcare, transportation, financial assistance information and much more."

• Utah’s Own

  

  "Connecting Utah Agricultural Producers with Utah Consumers – Support Utah’s products, buy local. Do your products qualify to carry the Utah’s own logo? Register your product as Utah’s Own. When you buy Utah products, you strengthen our Utah economy and enhance our Utah environment." (Sponsored by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.)

   

• Community Supported Agriculture listing of CSAs in Utah
• Utah Small Farms Co-op Members
• Farmers’ Markets
• Qualified Companies by Company Name
• Qualified Companies by Product

• Agriculture, US Department of:

  

  Selected Agencies & Offices:

   

• Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)

  Facilitates the strategic marketing of agricultural products in domestic and international markets while ensuring fair trading practices and promoting a competitive and efficient marketplace. AMS constantly works to develop new marketing services to increase customer satisfaction.

   

• Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

  USDA’s principal in–house research agency. ARS leads America towards a better future through agricultural research and information. ARS focuses on: National Research, International Research, Research Partnerships and Technology, Research Locations, and the National Agricultural Library.

• ARS Research Centers listings for across the United States.
• Logan, Utah, Agricultural Research Service Location. (One of many research centers.)

  Forage and Range Research Lab. — Poisonous Plant Research Lab. — Pollinating Insect–Biology, Management, Systematics Research (Bee) Lab, focusing primarily on pollination research with bees.

   

• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)

  Works to improve the health and well–being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.

   

• Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)

  In partnership with land–grant universities, and other public and private organizations, CREES provides the focus to advance a global system of extramural research, extension, and higher education in the food and agricultural sciences.

   

• Economic Research Service (ERS)

  USDA’s principal social science research agency. Each year, ERS communicates research results and socioeconomic indicators via briefings, analyses for policymakers and their staffs, market analysis updates, and major reports. Five major areas of research define the scope of ERS activity: A competitive agricultural system. — A safe food supply. — A healthy, well–nourished population. — Harmony between agriculture and the environment. — An enhanced quality of life for rural Americans.

   

• Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)

  Increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture and inspires public confidence.

   

• Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

  Enhances public health and well–being by protecting the public from food borne illness and ensuring that the nation’s meat, poultry and egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly packaged.

   

• National Agricultural Library (NAL): Advancing access to global information for agriculture.
• Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
• Community Supported Agriculture, providing a surprising variety of useful information, then visit these:
• 1993 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. 1993
• Resources for Farmers. 2006
• Organizations and Web Sites. 2006
• Automated Database Searches. 2006
• Defining Community Supported Agriculture. 1993
• Publications about Community Supported Agriculture. 2001

   

• National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

  Serves the basic agricultural and rural data needs of the country by providing objective, important and accurate statistical information and services to farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses and public officials. This data is vital to monitoring the ever-changing agricultural sector and carrying out farm policy.

   

• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

  Provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain and improve our natural resources and environment.

   

• Full listing of USDA Agencies & Offices.