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Mass layoffs at USDA leave an uncertain future for researchers and rural areas
Employees at U.S. Department of Agriculture research facilities across the Midwest have lost their jobs as part of the Trump ...
Agriculture secretary says USDA will pump $1 billion into tamping down bird flu, egg prices
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins vows to 'make eggs affordable again' by pumping $1 billion into fighting bird flu, which has cut ...
USDA rushing to rescind mistaken firings of key bird flu response personnel
Firings of USDA employees who coordinated bird flu response were accidental, NBC quotes an agency spokesperson as saying ...
Shaheen: Roughly two dozen federal agriculture workers lose jobs in NH
Nearly two dozen workers in federal agencies assisting farms in New Hampshire have lost their jobs, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ...
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Growers Who Rely on Climate Data Sue USDA for Cutting Off Access
Farmers are on the front lines," says one attorney, and axing web pages "doesn’t make climate change go away.” ...
U.S. Agriculture Department suspends scholarships for students at historically Black colleges
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended its scholarship program for students at historically black colleges and ...
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
"USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ... is making across the federal government, adding that the Agriculture Department "continues to prioritize the response to highly pathogenic avian ...
Farmers, green groups sue USDA over ‘unlawful purge’ of climate data
Farmers and green groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday for an “unlawful purge” of climate data from its ...
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‘Unneeded fear and hardship on rural America’: USDA releases some IRA funds to farmers
The USDA released $20 million to farmers for grants through the Inflation Reduction Act, but it's only "a drop in the bucket.
USDA Faces Lawsuit Over Purge of Climate Change Information
The US Department of Agriculture is facing a legal challenge over its move to wipe out information on climate change from its ...
USDA tries to reverse mistaken firing of bird flu response workers
The department is trying to rehire the employees as avian influenza causes egg prices to soar and as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes ...
USDA review of University of Maine funding could hit PFAS, biofuel research
A U.S. Department of Agriculture investigation into the agency's funding for the University of Maine could compromise ...