SC Ag Helps Celebrate USDA 150th Anniversary
May 15, 2012
by SFNToday Reporter

SC Ag Commissioner Hugh Weathers is helping USDA celebrate 150 years.  USDA was created by President Abraham Lincoln, and the South Carolina Department of Agriculture is 133 years old. 

The commissioner discusses how USDA and SCDA affect the economy at every level, and how there are fewer farmers now than every, yet every farmer feeds more people.


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