Since taking power Jan. 20, the Trump administration has quickly frozen funding and fired federal workers en masse.
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says USDA is working to send $31B in economic, disaster aid to farmers, acknowledging 'a lot of questions' about release
Tiffany Ramos, a Trump supporter, wants him to know that USDA cutbacks will "be felt by every dinner table in America.”
Rollins stated this week that the USDA will make a $1 billion investment to lower the price of eggs in the country.
Employees at U.S. Department of Agriculture research facilities across the Midwest have lost their jobs as part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to trim the federal workforce. Former and current employees at one of those labs say the job cuts will impact agricultural research and support for farmers.
Farmers are on the front lines," says one attorney, and axing web pages "doesn’t make climate change go away.”
Soaring egg prices have consumers boiling, and on Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture blamed rising costs on the bird flu epidemic and said it will take new steps to quell the outbreak.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the 2025 enrollment periods for key safety-net programs — Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage as well as Dairy Margin Coverage. Agricultural producers can submit applications to USDA’s Farm Service
Concord resident Becca Sheets says the job cuts were a surprise to even her supervisors. "No one knew anything. A lot of people had questions. No one had any answers.”
Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her role, a spokesperson for the USDA has said.
After several weeks of being bullish on corn, Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, bought protection against downside risk in the market. What changed his mind? It was signs he saw even before USDA released it's corn acreage at the Ag Outlook Forum.
Less than two weeks on the job, the new Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is focused on the avian flu that has wiped out millions of chickens and raised the price of a dozen eggs to nearly $5. That's a 53% jump from one year ago.
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