USDA News (email)

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 1 · email bulletin · Department of Agriculture

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What this source is

The Department of Agriculture administers farm programs, food-safety inspection, nutrition assistance, and rural development. Its departmental bulletins carry press releases on program funding, disaster designations, trade actions, and regulatory decisions.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

agriculture-email

Agency / parent organization

Department of Agriculture

Branch

executive

Type

email bulletin

Status

active

Tier

1

URL (home)

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases (opens in a new tab)

URL (signup)

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOC/subscriber/new (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-29

Registry notes

Subscribed and confirmed 2026-07-29 (sender [address withheld]). Sibling of agriculture-newsroom, whose web path robots.txt disallows — the first working input for this department. Component lists also subscribed and confirmed, to be split into their own entries if content evaluation shows distinct action streams: Foreign Agricultural Service, Food and Nutrition Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, APHIS, NIFA, Agricultural Research Service, Rural Development, and Farmers.gov. Gate-3 coverage evaluation (2026-07-30, from the 2026-07-29 bulletins): 2 bulletins carried 2 departmental releases, full text, DKIM-verified, with canonical usda.gov URLs. The subscription is the departmental press list; with the web channel refusing our client it is this department's only input, so the bulletin stream is the measure of its own coverage; component-list volume is observed under this entry until the split decision.

How we ingest it

Channel

email bulletin

Method

Subscription bulletins to the project mailbox, ingested by the email adapter (src/fapd/email_sources.py; raw RFC-5322 capture, DKIM verify-and-archive).

Adapter

govdelivery

Poll cadence

the project mailbox is read about every 15 minutes

Requests

none — bulletins are delivered to the project mailbox by the agency's own subscription service

Authenticity

every message's DKIM signature is checked on arrival and the result is disclosed on each item; a failing signature is labeled, never silently dropped

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 6 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-07-31, delivered by email.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day