Michael Howard and his team have planted everything from arugula to collard greens on this two-acre former trucking operation ...

The spread of H5N1 bird flu has sickened dozens of Americans, resulted in a nationwide egg shortage and led to the deaths of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A major shift in federal funding impacts local schools, food banks and local farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting two programs worth roughly $1 billion. They ...

The USDA eliminated the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, a spokesperson said. The committees ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of Stephen Vaden as deputy secretary of USDA for his upcoming administration. Vaden, who served as general counsel for USDA during Trump’s ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, March 10 - Nate Powell-Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service to help build a feed mill ...

The Office of Special Counsel applauded MSPB’s stay decision at USDA and urged all agencies to follow suit on reinstating fired probationary employees.

Funds for that USDA program and another one, the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program, are the ones being being frozen. This past year, the Northern Illinois Food Bank had been awarded $3 ...

USDA Says It Will Reinstate Fired Probationary Workers by Wednesday Deadline By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will comply with the Wednesday deadline issued by a ...

Now, the USDA says it will send $400 million more to farmers who need new chickens. The agency also says it will pay $500 million for biosecurity measures and $100 million "for vaccine research ...

In an email, employees working for USDA-funded programs were told that the state university system is still figuring out guidance for current operations. Staff were told they should expect more ...

The USDA eliminated the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection, according to the non-profit consumer ...