On April 30, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced additional departmental actions as part of its ongoing reorganization ...

The Food and Nutrition Service currently has a workforce of about 1,200 employees, according to the latest data from OPM. It’s not immediately clear how many FNS employees will be asked to relocate. A ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a small, six-person food distribution team that works directly with food banks across the Northeast to get food onto shelves, part of a program feeding ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service has approved Governor Kim Reynolds’ summer food program. The program, Healthy Kids Iowa, will replace the ...

The USDA is creating the National Food Safety Center in Urbandale to administer its nationwide Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Kitchen staff at the Clear Lake Middle School in northern Iowa slice local apples as one of the fruit options for lunch. The school district received federal funds through the USDA's Local Food for ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services mission area announced its ...

In the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s second administration, the federal funding landscape has been radically changed — especially for the people who grow, harvest, and distribute food ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized to tribal communities this week for delays in shipments and delivery of expired food during a tense congressional hearing that highlighted widespread ...

Urbandale, Iowa, will become home of a National Food Safety Center for FSIS, with an Athens, Ga., laboratory converted into the agency’s Science Center.