An independent federal board has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate nearly 6,000 employees fired last ...

Food deserts are areas that have a high percentage of people who don’t have access to healthy food, either due to low income, ...

An appeals court has removed the head of a federal watchdog agency in the latest twist in a legal fight over Republican ...

For some farmers faced with seed bills and equipment parts for repairing their machinery, solar land-management contracts can ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has to rehire over 5,000 employees who were abruptly laid off as part of President Donald Trump's attempts to unilaterally cut down the size of the federal ...

A decades-old federal scholarship program available to students at 19 historically black colleges and universities has been ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy cut more than 100 positions from the Division of Public Assistance in 2021. Since then, aid backlogs have ...

U.S. broiler hatchery numbers had another round of year-to-year gains last week. The USDA says 251.452 million broiler-type ...

Nearly $27 million from EQIP that was intended for New Mexico farmers is stalled, according to a news release Wednesday from the Thornburg Foundation. The Natural Resources and Conservation Service, ...

Under the new order, the fired workers can return to their jobs for 45 days during the Office of Special Counsel's investigation.

The Office of Special Counsel applauded MSPB’s stay decision at USDA and urged all agencies to follow suit on reinstating fired probationary employees.