{"id":4781,"date":"2026-05-15T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:09:44","slug":"department-of-agriculture-was-created-in-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4781","title":{"rendered":"Department of Agriculture Was Created in 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"fruits vegetables\" width=\"164\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fruits-vegetables1-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/>Department of Agriculture was created in 1862<\/strong>. The department has 29 different agencies and employs 100,000 people. Its goals are: &#8220;We have a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our nation&#8217;s natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.&#8221; Children can visit the department\u2019s nutrition website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myplate.gov\/life-stages\/kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA For Kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Agriculture was created in 1862. The department has 29 different agencies and employs 100,000 people. Its goals are: &#8220;We have a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4781' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4756,2035,5547],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4756","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-may-15","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29486,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/29486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}