USDA grants waiver preventing Utahns from buying soda with food stamps By Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL.com | Posted - June 12, 2025 at 5:16 p.m.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ waiver banning candy and soft drinks from Arkansas’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told Fox Business she believes that 20 to 30% of the program’s annual funding — now estimated closer to $200 billion — may be lost to fraud.

Faust also participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90% of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities. That puts Faust at a disadvantage, the lawsuit alleges.

In the delayed report released on Monday, the USDA raised its forecast of the U.S. agriculture trade deficit for fiscal-year 2025 to $49.5 billion, from the $49 billion it previously forecast in ...

In a 2016 study, USDA reported that 20% of SNAP spending went to unhealthy food and beverages. This is on par with non-SNAP families who spent 19.7% of their food budget on “junk food ...

Faust also participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90% of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities. That puts Faust at a disadvantage, the lawsuit alleges.

CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time that includes evaluating how it would affect exports ...

President Donald Trump's megabill could cost North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for a federal food ...

USDA loans are guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, so they don't require a down payment or private mortgage insurance. That makes them a great option for first-time homebuyers ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, or SNAP-Ed, faces elimination in a GOP bill, sparking concerns about the impact on low-income Americans' health education.