Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led government funding bill that ...

A U.S. district judge in California ordered six federal agencies, including the USDA, to reinstate probationary employees who ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...