Lawmakers' bid to slow the closure of the department's largest research facility rests on iffy legal ground but waves a ...

Congress is running out of time to pass major legislative priorities before the winter holidays, including a government funding bill, billions in emergency aid to Ukraine and Israel, and possibly ...

Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., chair of the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee The Agriculture Department would get $560 million more for rural broadband expansion, plus increases for research ...

FIRST ON FOX: A House Republican pressed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the agencies’ "apparent lack of an effective strategy" to combat the ongoing ...

A group of House Republicans has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Broadband ReConnect Program, which doled out more than $600 ...

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2016 - House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway says the Senate-passed GMO disclosure bill is “riddled with ambiguity,” but he declared his support for its passage after the ...

The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional ...

WASHINGTON -- White House officials repeatedly apologized to fired Georgia USDA official Shirley Sherrod and the USDA offered her a new job, but the former state director of rural development is still ...

House Republicans and Democrats alike hit the USDA hard in a hearing Thursday for some of the choices the department’s making as it implements the 2014 farm bill, including a delay on what they say is ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The department's own digital services team will be modeled after other “tour-of-duty” style models in government like the USDS. The ...

Nearly all of the foreclosures filed by the USDA in recent months have targeted Maine’s poorest rural residents. (Photo illustration by Peter DiCampo/ProPublica. Source photos: Bangor Daily News.