Farmers on a virtual town hall with Iowa Farmers Union talked Thursday about the strong partnership they have had with the USDA and fears they have about the programs being ...

Kelly Piccioni, owner of Events by Kelly Florist in Leesport and a Penn State Extension horticulture educator, created floral ...

Republicans reformed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in their "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," but supporters of ...

Pig farmer Jess D'Souza had hoped to finally turn a profit this year, aided by a federal program to bolster local food ...

Republicans sought to make states pay for some food-assistance benefits, but watchdogs say a last-minute exception could discourage states from addressing disbursement mistakes.

The Trump administration has repeatedly centered its policy battles in California, including on immigration and transgender ...

The 2008 Food and Nutrition Act allowed the secretary of Agriculture to grant waivers for states or counties with high unemployment rates. For years, all SNAP recipients in Illinois have been exempt ...

Eschewing a long-standing practice, Trump’s budget director is calling for a more partisan path to funding the government ahead of a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.

Gwen Johnson, a resident of the small Appalachian community of Jackhorn, Ky., wakes up to the voices and sounds of her ...

A wave of federal funding cuts to food assistance programs across the country has strained food shelves nationwide.

The USDA has set a deadline of July 30 for states to hand over the sensitive data of tens of millions of people who applied ...

While public TV and radio stations in much of rural America don’t depend on federal funding as heavily as their Alaska ...