Total Budget Package
These are funding levels set annually through the regular congressional appropriations process.
What is discretionary spending?
This provides programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
What is Nutrition Assistance?
This assists domestic and international marketing.
What are Marketing and Trade programs?
This is where the U.S. Department of Agriculture fights hunger.
What is all around the world?
This is placed a line or two below the sender's address.
What is the date?
This is the approximate number of people employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
What is approximately 100,000?
This major U.S. federal legislation provides mandatory funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
What is the Farm Bill?
This provides funding for wildlife firefighting.
What is the Forest Service?
Who is Brooke L. Rollins?
This is the city and building where the U.S. Department of Agriculture's headquarters is primarily located.
What is Washington, D.C., primarily in the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building?
This is automatic spending based on existing laws.
What is mandatory spending?
These provide programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
What are Crop Insurance Subsidies?
This provides funding for food inspection.
What are Food Safety programs?
This is the percentage range of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's budget that is mandatory.
What is 80 to 85%?
This contains the recipient's full name, title, company, and address, and it is placed a few lines below the date.
What is the inside address?
This is the year the U.S. Department of Agriculture was established.
What is 1862?
These provides certain conservation efforts.
What are Conservation Programs?
This provides funding for housing in rural areas.
What are Rural Development programs?
He established the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This is the salutation for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
The amount the U.S. President proposed in 2025 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
What is around $213.3 billion?
These contain programs providing price and income support for farmers.
What are Farm Commodity and Income Support?
This contains funding for agricultural research and education.
What is Research and Education?
This is the approximate number of countries the Foreign Agricultural Service supports.
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has offices in nearly 180 countries promoting U.S. agriculture.
If the writer is not using the company's letterhead, this will contain the writer's address (street, city, state, and zip).
What is the sender's address?