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

Iowans will be banned from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars to buy certain types of food beginning in ...

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

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

Under President Trump, the USDA is rolling back programs intended to strengthen local food supply chains. Small scale farmers ...

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

It may be small and petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially ...

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

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 ...