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Mid-South farmers grapple with uncertainty of USDA funding freeze, layoffs
Mississippi farmers face mounting uncertainty as a federal funding freeze and layoffs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
US board reinstates thousands of USDA employees fired by Trump administration
A U.S. board that reviews the firings of federal employees on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...
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MSPB orders temporary reinstatement of nearly 6,000 probationary workers at USDA
These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel ...
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USDA ordered to rehire thousands of fired employees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has to rehire over 5,000 employees who were abruptly laid off as part of President Donald ...
Experts Warn of Public Health Risks as the Trump Administration Eliminates 2 Critical Food Safety Committees
The advisory panels, which included top scientists and researchers, were working on preventing deadly foodborne illnesses and ...
Trump administration ordered to reinstate thousands of fired USDA workers
The decision is a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy.
USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, ...
She’s on a Scholarship at a Tribal College in Wisconsin. The Trump Administration Suspended the USDA Grant That Funded It.
Tribal colleges and universities, which ProPublica last year found are perpetually underfunded by Congress, say it’s illegal ...
USDA employees fired en masse by Trump administration reinstated, workers’ board says
A workers’ board is reinstating – at least temporarily – almost 6,000 fired probationary workers from the Department of ...
Federal board orders USDA to reinstate 'numerous' fired probationary employees
A federal personnel board on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate a fired worker, as well as ...
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USDA to measure fruit, cranberry, berry production
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct its end of season surveys for the 2024 non-citrus tree fruit, cranberry and berry production. The ...
USDA reinstates 1890 scholarship that helps Mississippi HBCU students study farming, food
The USDA reopened applications for the 1890 Scholars Program. It aims to train new Black farmers, food workers and helps HBCU ...