The Latest Breaking News from the Department of Agriculture

Gardening is the new sourdough

Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout.

The virus has infected millions of the nation’s poultry and hundreds of dairy herds

Environmental Protection Agency workers seem to be the first to receive a notice that they could be dismissed immediately

"The cultivated meat industry hopes a pro-business argument can win over skeptical Republicans"

Millions of birds have been killed in attempts to halt the spread of H5N1 bird flu across the U.S.

Learn about the impact of avian flu on egg prices and production due to necessary bird culling.

Two years after President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the people’s department” because half of all Americans lived on farms at that time. Today, fewer than 2% of Americans farm, but the Agriculture Department still touches people’s lives in many ways.

The Department of Agriculture has suspended poultry production at a facility in Georgia after the bird flu virus was detected.