Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and the Trump ...

The administration is asking employees “to help the agency with no guarantee of protection in the future," one staffer says.

In her first six months, Donald Trump’s second agriculture secretary has altered the course of the U.S. Department of ...

The U.S. Forest Service faced criticism from current and former employees who say federal workforce reductions under the ...

Republican House appropriators said the proposed 2026 spending levels reflect efforts to “rightsize” many agencies outside of ...

Meanwhile, USDA employees are bracing for staffing cuts. April 8 was the deadline for them to decide whether to take a deferred resignation offer from the department or hang on and hope to survive ...

Farmers across the country rely on their local USDA offices for a range of services, including conservation programs and crop insurance support, but concerns are growing that these services could ...

Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla said staffing shortages at the NWS are putting critical forecasting in jeopardy.

Trump’s proposed budget would cut $4.5 billion from the USDA, including from conservation and research programs. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has defended the cuts as efficient.

“USDA resources are only effective if they are usable and accessible,” the document read. The policy agenda comes as the department plans to cut staff as part of a new reorganization.

Staff cuts could force producers to drive five counties away and wait in line to go over onerous paperwork without the experts we rely on locally. Farmer’s most important capital is humans.

The Trump administration is continuing efforts to cut red tape around farmer programs, the Agriculture Department detailed in a new policy agenda released on Monday. Many of the to-do items build ...