Of the $12 billion provided, up to $11 billion will be used for the Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) Program, which provides broad relief to United States row crop farmers who produce Barley, Chickpeas, ...

Lawmakers' bid to slow the closure of the department's largest research facility rests on iffy legal ground but waves a ...

The Agriculture Department will complete a reorganization of more than half the current D.C.-based staff to five regional ...

USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden said the reorganization of more than half of the current USDA staff in the Washington, D.C., area to five regional hubs across the country will be finished by 2026.

USDA released a map showing Chinese-owned farmland in relation to military bases across the U.S. The map was included in USDA’s unveiling of the National Farm Security Action Plan this week, a ...

Brooke Rollins has made a case for sweeping changes to food aid programs by claiming USDA has uncovered "massive fraud." But ...

USDA NRCS works with farmers on soil health. (photo: USDA) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is announcing plans today for a Soil Carbon Monitoring and Research Network that will be created as part of ...

In late April of 2020, many Americans were shocked by the Trump administration’s executive order to keep the nation’s meatpacking plants humming: Covid-19 was tearing through the plants where workers ...

Higher plant diversity in agricultural grasslands increases yields with lower inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. That is the ...

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 accounts ...

A farmer in northwest Missouri runs a combine through a field of soybeans in November 2022. The USDA sent out postcards last month asking farmers and ranchers to fill out its Census of Agriculture ...

Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can ...