The plan is not yet finalized and still subject to change, USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden repeatedly stressed to members ...

The surprise reorg announcement last week was a flash point at a hearing Thursday, where senators expressed displeasure about ...

The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region Headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would ...

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden today vigorously defended the Trump administration’s proposal to reorganize the Agriculture Department at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing. “President ...

With the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announcing a major reorganization plan, lawmakers met to grill Deputy ...

The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would ...

His bill would let huge corporate agricultural interests — like China-owned Smithfield Food — outcompete most small farmers.

The closures are part of a broader reorganization effort at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which houses the U.S. Forest ...

Together with the extension of several corporate tax breaks due to expire, a provision of the recently passed and signed budget bill of great interest to the processed foods sector was proposed cuts ...

Local leaders are addressing AI’s impact on water, surveillance, transparency and more. A mostly hands-off approach at the federal level means regulating complex AI issues is–so far–evolving in a ...