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The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of ...
Mass layoffs at the Agriculture Department coming within weeks, with Washington facing significant cuts but regional ...
Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ ...
The Trump administration is planning to severely scale back or outright eliminate funding for many programs across the ...
The DOGE is terminating leases at USDA field offices around the country called service centers. Farmers hope the Pittsfield Service Center will survive these cuts.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve its bird flu testing of milk, cheese and pet food due ...
WE HAVE SEEN SOME IMPACT. I THINK IF THESE CUTS CONTINUE ... National Weather Service station in Valley last week.And cuts to USDA staff affect those who go out to fields and provide real time ...
“When we have the dry, hot summers or lack of rainfall, our crops can sustain the dry spells better. We don’t have huge yield ...
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association said Maine farmers have been directly impacted by some $19 million of ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled $500 million of funding for food banks nationwide. Those cuts have impacted ... piece of land and adding new staff members to better serve our ...
When grass is healthy, it’s full of protein and easy for cows to digest. Sometimes the summers are unbearably hot, and the grass dries up and energy is sent instead to the seed. The grass becomes less ...
Scientists likely won’t have answers anytime soon – in part thanks to the Trump administration’s heavy cuts to USDA funding ...