The Department of Agriculture has cut over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a news report and a school nutrition nonprofit.

March 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches ...

In March 2025, social media users claimed (archived) that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had rehired 6,000 employees after they were fired in February as part of the Trump administration's ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department predicts the current record prices for eggs could soar more than 40% in 2025, as the Trump administration offered the first new details Wednesday ...

A shopper picks up eggs at a grocery store in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. With bird flu killing millions of egg-laying chickens, prices surged more than 15% in January from a month ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will release about $20 million in funding for previously approved contracts that had been frozen by the Trump administration's push to overhaul the ...

A group of farmers and environmental nonprofits sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture, accusing the department of scrubbing data relating to climate change from its website and saying the move ...