The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended a college scholarship program for students from rural and underserved ...

The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.

The firings of thousands of USDA employees included some who the department acknowledged were essential to bird flu effort ...

Bird flu has been detected in rats for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scrambling to rehire workers who had been working on the government's response to the ...

Roughly a dozen employees were let go this month at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, as part of the ongoing reduction of the federal workforce.

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USDA said it's trying to rescind the firings this weekend of several employees who had worked on the bird flu.

The statement explained that many of the positions were in the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, exactly the kind of ...

Also caught up in the job cuts was Ron Gregory. He worked for a USDA plant protection and quarantine office in Wyoming, but ...

The department is trying to rehire the employees as avian influenza causes egg prices to soar and as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes ...

An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." ...