The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the end of COVID-era food programs that were utilized by food pantries and schools across the country to buy locally from farmers. Minnesota’s ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized to tribal communities this week for delays in shipments and delivery of expired food during a tense congressional hearing that highlighted widespread ...

Shelves at Massachusetts food banks may look emptier after the most recent round of USDA cuts. On Thursday, the state’s food banks were informed by the Massachusetts Office of Education that $3.3 ...

USDA employee Ellen Mei (center) spoke at a rally Friday about her planned termination following an interview about SNAP benefits lapsing during the federal shutdown. On October 2, the day after the ...

KOSU wrote dozens of articles about agriculture and food this year, led by reporter Anna Pope and supplemented by the station ...

GEORGIA, USA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has abruptly halted funding that supported fresh, locally grown food programs for schools and food banks. The decision, stemming from recent ...

In the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s second administration, the federal funding landscape has been radically changed — especially for the people who grow, harvest, and distribute food ...

By dawn, they would be stacked inside the Central California Food Bank, one of the buyers that keeps his small-scale farm and produce market in Fresno afloat through the federal Local Food Purchase ...

Liz Bell (left) and her daughter Jojo Thomas pose outside a mural on their farm. Credit: Phillip Powell / Arkansas Times An Arkansas farm’s contract to grow fresh produce for the Arkansas Foodbank in ...