The USDA will reopen some 2,100 Farm Service Agency offices nationwide Oct. 23 to issue assistance checks to farmers, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. The offices were closed by the ...

Fordyce discussed how the administration’s farm bailouts will be calculated and what’s next for USDA’s conservation agenda.

The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid ...

The Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary federal employees has swept out workers across USDA, including loan analysts in Farm Service Agency field offices, ag scientists, and about 1,200 ...

Some 81% of USDA Farm Service Agency employees are in their offices full-time, and the limited availability of telework has contributed to some extent to recruitment and retention challenges, ...

USDA partially reopened local Farm Service Agency offices across the United States on Oct. 23, which will allow some farm-level FSA functions to resume after being shut down for over three weeks. The ...

Idaho producers stand to benefit from the second stage of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program that USDA rolled out last ...

The Douglas County USDA Service Center, located at 4920 Bob Billings Pkwy, is pictured on Thursday, March 13, 2025. The Trump administration’s pick to lead the USDA Farm Service Agency in Kansas is ...

More than 20,300 employees left the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the first five months of the administration of ...

With commodity prices down and farm returns expected to significantly decline, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has released three major changes to its farm loan programs in an effort to increase the ...

PITTSFIELD — Michael Gallagher just dug a well and is burying a water line at his Square Roots Farm in Lanesborough. The project will allow him to move his animals around the farm — both for the ...

The Continuing Resolution legislation that was passed by Congress in late 2024 included $21 billion in disaster assistance for 2023 and 2024 agricultural crop losses from natural disasters, such as ...