Twenty states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in March, alleging that the Trump administration is attempting to place unlawful conditions on $74 billion in federal food assistance.

A judge on Friday blocked the ​U.S. Department of Agriculture from withholding tens of billions of dollars in federal funds from states ‌unless they complied with the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement,

A second case of the deadly New World screwworm parasite has been confirmed in a Texas calf, the US Department of Agriculture said.

A case of flesh-eating New World screwworm has been detected in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. It is the first time this parasitic fly – whose larvae feed exclusively on the tissue of warm-blooded animals – has been detected in US livestock in decades.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for more scrutiny of 10 lenders that were ejected from a Department of Agriculture program. Several of the lenders are pushing back, questioning officials' characterizations of their lending results and announcing appeal plans.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has been speaking openly about the Christian faith -- and some secularists do not like it. A lawsuit filed on May 13 by groups like Americans United for Separation of Church and State on behalf of multiple USDA employees claimed that Rollins' pattern of "proselytizing Christian messaging" violates the First Amendment.

Sid Miller claims the USDA ignored his plan to stop a deadly screwworm outbreak now hitting South Texas cattle.

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture confirmed its latest Small Processors Action Plan, which can allot up to $60 million for intermediate, small and very small meat processing plants.