Several US Department of Agriculture employees tackling the bird flu outbreak were accidentally fired over the weekend, an action the agency is trying to correct.

The Department of Agriculture secretary said she's moving fast on the new agenda, although frozen grants and contracts have been slow to break free.

A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspen

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one of 19 universities,

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins vows to 'make eggs affordable again' by pumping $1 billion into fighting bird flu, which has cut consumer supplies.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says USDA is working to send $31B in economic, disaster aid to farmers, acknowledging 'a lot of questions' about release

Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her role, a spokesperson for the USDA has said.

Firings of USDA employees who coordinated bird flu response were accidental, NBC quotes an agency spokesperson as saying

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolled out the US Department of Agriculture’s $1 billion plan to lessen the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak and deal with the major increases in egg prices around the United States.

A scholarship for HBCU students created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reopened. As AFROTECH™ previously reported, the department had established the 1890 National Scholars Program, which was intended to increase opportunities for underserved and rural communities,