US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins unveiled plans for reorganization of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) after a review of the agency indicated a “bloated, expensive and unsustainable organization,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated the Regional Food Business Centers program, which provided grant funding to Kansas farms and businesses.

The United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, will close down a major portion of its current headquarters in Washington, D.C., moving some of the staffers to Northern Colorado.

A Trump administration reorganization of the Department of Agriculture would eliminate U.S. Forest Service regional headquarters and significantly change or eliminate some agency functions.

It is unclear how this may affect Raleigh's ARS office, which includes three units: Food Science and Market Quality and Handling Research, Plant Science Research and Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation Research.

Rollins named four pillars at the center of the reorganization: to ensure the size of USDA’s workforce aligns with available financial resources and agricultural priorities; to bring USDA closer to its customers;

Produce Perks supports more than 150 farms, markets and grocers in Ohio. Some are concerned about the future of the program after more than $5 million in USDA funding for the program was clawed back.

The move is part of USDA’s larger plan “to achieve improved effectiveness and accountability, enhanced services, reduced bureaucracy and cost savings for the American people,” according to the announcement memo.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged six people — including a fraud investigator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) — for allegedly orchestrating “one of the largest food stamp scams in U.S. history,” siphoning tens of millions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).