California farmers growing food for schools and food banks were among those hit by $1 billion in cuts to the U.S. Department ...

Under President Trump, the USDA is rolling back programs intended to strengthen local food supply chains. Small scale farmers ...

A coalition of California lawmakers is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reverse its decision to close nine ...

When the U.S. government chopped $1 billion from USDA programs nationally, farmers didn’t take the move lying down.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff is among a group of legislators pushing to keep nine field offices for the ...

Faced with water shortages, some California farmers are turning to solar energy as a sustainable way to use fallow land.

The decision came last month as the U.S. Department of Agriculture slashed a $3.1 billion Biden-era program known as Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.

Typically, many farmers take out yearly operating loans to pay for labor, fertilizer, fuel and other input costs, and then ...

Closure of these offices would severely hamper USDA’s ability to support farmers ... Jimmy Panetta. California lawmakers also raised concerns in February about federal budget cuts that ...