The inspector general for the US Department of Agriculture says almost 20% of the agency's staff has left. How many in Iowa have quit?

About a fifth of the staff at the farm agency left in the first five months of Trump's second term, according to a new report ...

Democratic lawmakers expressed "deep concern" about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's intent to collect the personal data of tens of millions of federal food assistance recipients and sent ...

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

The surprise reorg announcement last week was a flash point at a hearing Thursday, where senators expressed displeasure about being left in the dark. The Department of Agriculture deliberately kept ...

Although the efforts of staff working for the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) have not drawn banner headlines at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the way that ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is promising big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently helps almost 42 million Americans buy groceries. In recent media ...

The USDA has launched a $700 million pilot program focused on regenerative agriculture. KRCR interviewed the Director and ...

In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins found that 500,000 people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit were ...

Holiday kielbasa sausages were pulled from shelves due to potential metal contamination, which can cause internal injury if consumed.

The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, ...