Justin Benavidez, who was chief economist for the House Agriculture Committee's Republican staff for the past three years, is ...

FIRST ON FOX: A House Republican pressed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the agencies’ "apparent lack of an effective strategy" to combat the ongoing ...

President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January and quickly followed through on many of his campaign promises – an ...

USDA losing 20,300 employees is big news. Even bigger will be working around that steep drop in experienced staff as USDA ...

WASHINGTON -- White House officials repeatedly apologized to fired Georgia USDA official Shirley Sherrod and the USDA offered her a new job, but the former state director of rural development is still ...

A group of House Republicans has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Broadband ReConnect Program, which doled out more than $600 ...

The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional ...

House Republicans and Democrats alike hit the USDA hard in a hearing Thursday for some of the choices the department’s making as it implements the 2014 farm bill, including a delay on what they say is ...

The measure could block money from flowing to the proposed moves, which would bring about 550 jobs to the Kansas City area. The House voted Tuesday in favor of a measure aimed at blocking the U.S.

— Controversial food and agriculture issues will be front and center at House hearings this week. Democrat-led panels will dig into the Agriculture Department’s school nutrition and food stamp ...

Over 20,000 USDA employees left in 2025, sparking fears of a "brain drain" as the agency manages a $234B budget and new ...

Nearly all of the foreclosures filed by the USDA in recent months have targeted Maine’s poorest rural residents. (Photo illustration by Peter DiCampo/ProPublica. Source photos: Bangor Daily News.