2025-26 NPPC officers (Photo: NPPC) USDA has named additional communications staff. Jolene Pumphrey will be deputy press secretary. She was digital director for Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., ...

Additionally, Laurel Lee Chatham joined the House Agriculture Committee Republican staff as a law clerk. She previously covered agriculture issues for Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis. Josie Montoney ...

Dog trainers are just one example of the kind of highly specialized USDA staff that have been removed from their stations in recent weeks. Teams devoted to inspecting plant and food imports have ...

Copeland estimates the NDDTC lost about a fifth of its trainers and a number of other support staff when 6,000 employees were let go at the USDA in February as part of a government-wide purge ...

Copeland estimates the NDDTC lost about a fifth of its trainers and a number of other support staff when 6,000 employees were let go at the USDA in February as part of a government-wide purge ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will comply with the Wednesday deadline issued by a federal board to temporarily reinstate its fired probationary employees, according to an agency statement.

IT ALREADY PROMPTED NOAA TO STOP OR REDUCE WEATHER BALLOON LAUNCHES, INCLUDING THOSE AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VALLEY LAST WEEK, AND CUTS TO USDA STAFF WILL GO OUT IN THE FIELDS AND ...

USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee sent an email ordering USDA staff to “identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change” by “no later than ...

Several months after announcing that the Pa. Agriculture Discovery Center was coming to Adams County, officials have revealed the proposed site for the 25,000-square-foot discovery center.

Three days later, school officials said, “USDA staff contacted UMS as part of that review,” and their inquiries “largely focused on whether biological males could compete on women’s sports ...

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. Roughly $660 ...

It directed USDA staff to withhold funding both to the University of Maine System and Columbia University. According to UMS, the email states the pause is temporary while the USDA evaluates ...