Sustainability advocates worry that deregulation, combined with cuts to monitoring agencies, will mean a return to the depletion of US fish stocks.

A group of 79 Republican members of Congress are asking Cabinet members to leave banning pesticides out of their efforts to Make America Healthy Again.

Kevin Hall has retired early from the National Institutes of Health and expressed concerns about being able to pursue ...

Trump’s USDA has stalled the program, which supports business development for local and regional farms, since the ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went to Arkansas and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went to Indiana to support ...

The agency said it would review existing projects based on new criteria and continue to fund those that qualify under a new ...

Civil Eats gains a development director and staff reporter, respectively, in a time when many publications are cutting jobs.

A growing number of free grocery stores offer shoppers not just free food, but choice, ambiance, and space for dignity, too.

April 11, 2025 – In response to requests from Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), USDA officials provided a list of 15 agency programs that are currently paused, ...

April 10, 2025 – Despite a prevailing sense on Capitol Hill that passing a farm bill this year is highly unlikely, lawmakers in both chambers introduced a flurry of marker bills over the past 10 days.

April 9, 2025 – During a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing to consider Stephen Vaden for the number-two position at the USDA today, senators focused on trade and other issues important in their ...

In the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, the goddess Ho‘ohōkūkalani gives birth to a stillborn son, who is buried in the fertile soil. In her grief, she waters the soil with her tears, and a ...