Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government ...

The policy agenda comes as the department plans to cut staff as part of a new reorganization. Already, USDA has lost ...

During a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing earlier this week, Senator Elissa Slotkin rails against the Trump Administration's proposed $600 million cut in agricultural ...

The agency quietly removed webpages on rural energy, climate-smart agriculture, and federal loans — until farmers sued.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff is among a group of legislators pushing to keep nine field offices for the ...

The Trump administration’s nominees for two key Under Secretary positions pledged to uphold USDA services with reduced resources during Wednesday’s confirmation hearing. Senate Ag Committee Ranking ...

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on USDA’s announcement to create policy focused on the ...

A $750,000 federal grant that supported a Western New York farm program has been cut by the USDA, and Providence Farm Collective is fighting back.

In January, following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the USDA’s communications office instructed employees to “identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate ...

In late April and early May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would no longer require companies to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry ...

Despite the pending cancellations, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, which administers the program, announced it was accepting new applications for fiscal 2025 last week. Spokespeople for the ...