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 ...
The flagship U.S. program for international food assistance, Food for Peace, would be transferred to the Department of Agriculture and lose more than half its budget under the draft fiscal 2026 ...
KOSU wrote dozens of articles about agriculture and food this year, led by reporter Anna Pope and supplemented by the station ...
In an effort to save the Food for Peace program amid the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, farm-state Republicans have proposed to move the program to the Agriculture ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Trump spin machine is in overdrive, but empty words and promises can’t fool farmers struggling to make ends meet.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...