Effective immediately, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), is expanding the area quarantined ...

CEO Jamie Ager of Hickory Nut Gap, a farm in Fairview, is passionate about providing local food to schools, but the USDA has ...

These plans were not publicly available at the time of this writing, and it was unclear how they would affect USDA probationary employees. The Office of Special Counsel is a federal agency that ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced over $1 billion in federal spending cuts to programs that assist food banks and schools in purchasing fresh produce from local, underserved farmers ...

The commissioners will vote to adopt final maps on March 26. Proposition 11 passed last November to create a new district in Alpine, American Fork, Cedar Hills, Highland, Lehi and the Utah County ...

The School Nutrition Association, which represents cafeteria workers and directors nationwide, said in a press release that the USDA cut the $660 million Local Food for Schools program for 2025.

The USDA divides the United States into seven planting regions, known as hardiness zones, which were most recently updated in 2023. The maps below show these planting regions. Need a break?

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.

The School Nutrition Association, which represents cafeteria workers and directors nationwide, said in a press release that the USDA cut the $660 million Local Food for Schools program for 2025.

The sum represents a tiny sliver of program funding the USDA suspended after the White House's broad freeze of federal loans and grants last month. Although the administration rescinded the memo ...

The USDA’s purge has hurt farmers and advisers who rely on data provided by the agency to access financial support for conservation practices, said the Northeast Organic Farming Association of ...

Meanwhile, the state was expecting to receive a combined total of $22,439,038 from the LFPA programs, according to the USDA website. Here’s what to know about the USDA canceling local food ...