Articles Tagged with ''USDA''

Tom Schultz, former director of the Idaho Department of Lands, was named chief of the U.S. Forest Service. He succeeds Randy Moore, who announced his retirement this week, citing the challenges of the 'significant transformation' of the federal government.

Prices for most major row crops are likely to fall again this year, keeping pressure on farmer earnings, even as prices for cattle and poultry continue to rise in 2025 due to constrained supplies, according to USDA.

The Trump administration has moved into its next phase in shrinking the federal workforce by asking federal agencies to develop plans for large-scale reductions in force. 

The Association of California Water Agencies named Marwan Khalifa as interim executive director effective Feb. 24. Ana Unruh Cohen was named Democratic staff director for the House Natural Resources Committee. 

Selling lawmakers on Farm-to-School * Fact sheet on pesticide notifications * Mexico, Canada tariffs still on * Probationary firings questioned

House GOP leaders this week will try to hold their narrow majority together on a sweeping budget blueprint that would require at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, which face resistance from some moderate Republicans as well as some in the Senate GOP.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins captured the attention of the agriculture community as the FFA alumni shared her pride in wearing the blue corduroy jacket. In honor of National FFA week, we take a look at Rollins’ background, including the influential role of her FFA adviser that helped her become the nation’s top agriculture official. 

Farmers and rural businesses that signed contracts with the Agriculture Department to install renewable energy sources or energy-efficiency technology on their operations in exchange for federal grant funding are seeing funding held up amid a federal funding freeze.

In an effort to save the Food for Peace program amid the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, farm-state Republicans have proposed to move the program to the Agriculture Department. But aid experts and USAID veterans say it would take USDA years to build the expertise it needs.