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USDA's proposed reorganization will make the department's work more challenging, with a "accomplish less with less" approach, ...
Governor Jared Polis's relationship with rural Colorado has been criticized due to his controversial board appointments and ...
In her first six months, Donald Trump’s second agriculture secretary has altered the course of the U.S. Department of ...
Cuban comedian Luis Silva, known as "Pánfilo," has cast doubt on the sustainability of a well-stocked agricultural market ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended a federal scholarship program that provided financial aid to students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The 1890 ...
Higher tariffs would adversely affect agricultural imports, which would harm US consumers, but the trade actions could also provoke counter-retaliatory actions by affected exporters. Indeed, Canada, ...
Thousands of employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted the Trump administration’s voluntary resignation offer, leading to a significant reduction in force. The decrease ...
The Department of Agriculture has cut over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a news report and a school nutrition nonprofit ...
The USDA threatened to halt imports of Mexican cattle and bison if Mexico fails to act against a flesh-eating screwworm fly spreading north toward U.S. herds.
USDA is expected to offer buyouts of up to $25,000 to employees in the coming days. Employees told Government Executive they lamented having to make a life-altering decision without complete ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu ...