USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reopened the public comment period for an interim final rule for ...

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. Sign up here.

Mike Stepien with USDA APHIS told TSLN that Santa Teresa and Douglas Ports of Entry were the first to open for cattle imports, with Santa Teresa being the first to open. In addition to Douglas and ...

Probationary workers, meaning those who have been in their positions about a year or less, lost their jobs at USDA beginning on February 13. The reason the Trump administration gave for the ...

Probationary workers, meaning those who have been in their positions about a year or less, lost their jobs at USDA beginning on February 13. The reason the Trump administration gave for the cutbacks ...

A laboratory technician performs diagnostic testing at the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. The laboratory receives ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolls out a five-part plan Wednesday to fight bird flu and high egg ...

Usually the country supplies about 70 million eggs to the U.S., but has said it will send about 420 million this year, USDA chief of staff Kailee Tkacz Buller said during a press conference Wednesday.

With an emphasis on tightening up biosecurity on farms, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the USDA will invest another $1 billion on top of the roughly $2 billion it has already spent ...