Steve Davies

2 weeks ago | agriculture.com | Noah Wicks |Steve Davies

The majority of the of the roughly 15,100 USDA employees who accepted buyouts from the Trump administration worked outside the national capital region, ensuring that the department's downsizing will reverberate in communities across the country, according to deferred resignation program data obtained by Agri-Pulse.

3 weeks ago | agriculture.com | Rebekah Alvey |Steve Davies

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 spending bill released by the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee.

2 months ago | agriculture.com | Steve Davies |Noah Wicks |Rebekah Alvey

Leaders of projects funded under USDA's canceled-and-rebranded Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program are waiting for more guidance on how to reapply after the Trump administration labeled the program a “slush fund” and apparently terminated most of its grants.

2 months ago | agriculture.com | Steve Davies |Rebekah Alvey

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is renaming and changing the rules of a $3.1 billion program testing the ability of a variety of conservation practices to produce climate-smart commodities.

2 months ago | agriculture.com | Noah Wicks |Steve Davies

Thousands of USDA employees are planning to leave the agency through a deferred resignation program that could challenge the department’s ability to fulfill critical functions such as food import and export inspections. Applications for the latest of two rounds of buyout offers closed on Tuesday. The department has not released the number of employees who had applied for the DRP offer.