Agriculture Department Tag

USDA Deploys Sterilized Flies, High‑Tech Arsenal to Guard the Border Against Screwworm Threat

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 13, 2026 15 Comments

Between the USDA’s sterile‑fly arsenal, state‑level vigilance, and a wall of new technology lining up close to our border, this pest may find itself out-of-luck even before it ever crosses the Rio Grande....

USDA Challenges California Over Potential Implementation of Race-Based Farmland Redistribution Plan

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 28, 2025 21 Comments

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins slams the report prepared by state's Agricultural Land Equity Task Force that asks for race-basd redistribution of agricultural property....

Rollins: Ag Dept. to ‘Fundamentally Rebuild’ SNAP, Make People ‘Reapply for Their Benefit’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 14, 2025 44 Comments

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Trump: SNAP Benefits Will Go Out ‘When the Radical Left Democrats Open Up Government’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 04, 2025 23 Comments

Trump pointed out the Democrats could "easily" open the government....

Trump Admin Will Partially Fund SNAP Benefits

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 03, 2025 24 Comments

However, it could take a long time before the money gets moved around....

Agriculture Sec. Rollins Exposes SNAP Corruption

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 03, 2025 67 Comments

"We have found thousands and thousands of of illegal use of the EBT card. We have been moving people off of SNAP. We've got almost 700,000 people...

Judges Tell Trump Admin to Use Contingency Funds to Partially Cover SNAP

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 31, 2025 74 Comments

"Here, Congress appropriated $6 billion to SNAP in 2024as a contingency reserve through 2026, 'to be used in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations.'”...

Trump Administration Unleashes America’s Cattle Power

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 23, 2025 34 Comments

The initiative is part of a coordinated effort between the USDA, the Department of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stabilize the national beef supply and address herd losses from drought and escalating costs....

California Issues Advisory for New World Screwworm

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 18, 2025 14 Comments

One more blood-sucking parasite infesting the Golden State....

Maryland Resident Diagnosed With Flesh-Eating Screwworm After Central America Travel

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 27, 2025 12 Comments

USDA announces "Tick Riders" and detector dogs will be part of the containment plans to prevent spread of New World Screwworm....

Box Tree Moth Invades Virginia: 10th U.S. State Confirms Pest Presence

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 04, 2025 11 Comments

This destructive insect came into the country by way of Canada....

Trump Admin Launches Program to Protect Farms From China

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 09, 2025 24 Comments

"We feed the world. We lead the world. And we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods."...

White House Addresses Amnesty Rumors

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on July 09, 2025 30 Comments

"If you want to break our coalition, go and push amnesty. That right there would be a complete collapse of everything we have worked for. Everything."...

Waffle House Takes Its Egg Surcharge Off the Menu

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 03, 2025 38 Comments

USDA's 5-pronged approach to controlling bird flu outbreaks, focused on biosecurity and not culling, appears to be working well....

Two Chinese Nationals Accused of Smuggling ‘Potential Agroterrorism’ Fungus into U.S.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 03, 2025 44 Comments

CCP Party Member Yunqing Jian has been arrested and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu remains in China....

HHS Scraps Moderna’s $700 Million Bird Flu Vaccine Program

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 31, 2025 22 Comments

Meanwhile, the US bird flu cases among poultry has declined, due to Trump administration focus on enhanced biosecurity measures and targeted containment strategies....

U.S. Halts Import of Livestock from Mexico over New World Screwworm Threat

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 13, 2025 9 Comments

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins indicated the move was made in the interest of the nation's food security....

USDA Issues Order to Expand Logging in National Forests Under Emergency Declaration

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 09, 2025 16 Comments

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins acknowledged more attention would be given to proper forest management....

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