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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, January 27, 2025
USDA's Farm Service Agency said Monday it is accepting nominees for upcoming elections to fill county committees, which help determine local administration of federal farm programs.
At least 36% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from rural America due to higher-emitting activities, despite the lower population in these areas, according to a new report.
Another worker at a dairy farm has been infected with avian flu, most likely through contact with a cow, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
Employees of USDA feel better about their working conditions and leadership in the years since they posted among the worst morale of any large government agency in an annual survey to determine the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.”
Republican House members from the Midwest and parts of California and Texas represented the nation's 10 top-selling districts for agricultural commodities in 2022, according to new data published by the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has been minimizing concerns that the existing level of foreign ownership of American farmland is a serious risk, saying the bigger issue is farmland being scooped up by “billionaires and Wall Street.”
The Senate has advanced a bill that would reauthorize a slate of conservation grant programs that fund Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, assistance for producers that lose livestock to endangered predators, and wetlands conservation projects.
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