A top U.S. Department of Agriculture official defended the agency's reorganization plan during a Senate committee hearing on ...

Erickson pointed out that Fort Collins’ locality rate is 30.52 percent, resulting in almost no payroll savings. And although Salt Lake City’s locality rate is 17.06 percent, Utah’s public land is ...

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden today vigorously defended the Trump administration’s proposal to reorganize the Agriculture Department at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing. “President ...

The plan is not yet finalized and still subject to change, USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden repeatedly stressed to members ...

Deputy Ag Secretary Stephen Vaden told senators the plan is designed to attract the next generation of USDA leadership by ...

Ahead of a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday on the Trump administration’s plans to reorganize the Agriculture Department, two former officials and a prominent professor of food studies ...

The vast reorganization announced last week by Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins received mostly negative reviews from current and ...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar calls the USDA reorganization a “half-baked plan.” Sen. Adam Schiff questions whether it will help farmers ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to relocate thousands of Washington, D.C., employees to five regional hubs ...

A Trump administration reorganization of the Department of Agriculture would eliminate U.S. Forest Service regional ...