But, with Easter just around the corner, Rollins acknowledged the positive change is likely short-lived and holiday demand could deliver another spell of sticker shock to already fatigued consumers.

Last October, the USDA designated $2.8 million for food producers in New Mexico to plan and invest in a three-year cycle, but this month, it announced it would no longer fund the local food purcha ...

Rollins said USDA was also exploring the use of vaccines and therapeutics in chickens to cut down on culling of birds, but the agency has not yet authorized any for use. “To every family ...

Rollins acknowledged that there "have been a lot of questions" about USDA's delivery of the congressional aid. Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has blocked millions ...

Schools with at least 50% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals generally qualify for the program, according to the USDA. Ironically, most of 279,000 cases of apples worth $5.5 ...

Anybody that does: This is morally wrong on many levels.” The USDA recently announced $1 billion in cuts to two programs that enable schools and food banks to buy products from local farmers.

Becca Sheetz was a natural resources specialist at USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. She was fired along with thousands of other federal employees in February. The Trump ...

Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) halted approximately $660 million in funding for two vital USDA programs, the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement, and Local ...

In an email received by the University of Maine, the USDA's chief financial officer ordered all payments paused while the department "evaluates if it should take any follow-on actions" related to ...

Yesterday, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that USDA awarded a $280 million grant to the Texas Department of Agriculture to pay farmers affected by water shortages in her home state.