USDA launches military hiring program for veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an initiative designed to recruit veterans, transitional service members, and military spouses into roles to help protect America’s food supply, ...
Drovers

USDA Feral Swine Program Commits $35 Million Toward Grants to Protect American Farmland

Funded through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program is opening $35 million in new grants to help partners across 14 states protect American farms, ...
SeafoodSource

USDA to buy groundfish and catfish for food programs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to purchase catfish and Atlantic groundfish products as part of USD 76.5 ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

USDA ended its local food programs. A look at how farmers, schools and food banks are coping

Kitchen staff at the Clear Lake Middle School in northern Iowa slice local apples as one of the fruit options for lunch. The school district received federal funds through the USDA's Local Food for ...
Agri-Pulse

Fifteen USDA programs under review, Klobuchar says

The Agriculture Department is reviewing 15 of its programs amid ongoing Trump Administration scrutiny over spending, according to a list provided to Agri-Pulse on Thursday by Senate Ag Committee ...
CNN

USDA commission suggests sweeping changes to remedy discrimination

The US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission on Tuesday presented more than 30 recommendations it hopes will extend opportunities to communities of color and help resolve longstanding ...
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Following the USDA’s food and farm funding

In the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s second administration, the federal funding landscape has been radically changed — especially for the people who grow, harvest, and distribute food ...
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USDA Secretary wants to ‘deconstruct' SNAP. Changes are already happening

The Department of Agriculture plans sweeping changes to the country's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and other USDA-administered welfare programs with the aim of eliminating fraud and ...
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USDA’s end of diversity efforts in farm programs will mean ‘less food for the community’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled last week that it already “sufficiently addressed” past discrimination and that continuing to practice “race- and sex-based remedies” are no longer necessary ...
Agri-Pulse

Trump budget slashes USDA programs, international food aid

President Donald Trump is proposing to slash non-defense spending by nearly 23% in a fiscal 2026 budget that recommends a $5 billion cut to USDA programs, including agricultural research, ...
KCCI Des Moines

USDA cuts programs bringing local food into schools, food banks

Iowa farmers and institutions lost an estimated $11.3 million in federal funding to support the purchase of locally raised foods, following the recent termination of two U.S. Department of Agriculture ...