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The USDA’s Office of Inspector General has filed its annual report on management challenges the department is facing, and topping the list of 11 challenges is how to coordinate the efforts of the various agencies and programs that provide oversight of key mission areas.

State officials might improve their record in detecting fraud in USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if financial incentives were provided that would help support the costs of investigation, according to the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Forty years ago in November, the World Food Conference in Rome was my first encounter with the followers of Lyndon LaRouche, a group of zealous activists bent on exposing what they saw as a vast conspiracy of multinational companies, government agencies and foundations bent on starving humanity

Cows raised on organic and conventional dairy farms in three regions of the United States show no significant differences in health or in the nutritional content of their milk

EPA today sent its proposed final rule for the 2014 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) volume obligations to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where it will undergo an interagency review.

Cargill pledges $1 million to 'Raising Nebraska' agriculture exhibit

California citrus producers can once again export their products to China after a 16-month suspension, USDA announced today.

Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes debated farm issues, immigration reform and the need to change the Senate during a Kentucky Farm Bureau Forum

USDA today announced two additional ways it is planning to help schools serve healthier meals as part of their school lunch programs.

In letters sent this week to the European Commission and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), several agricultural organizations asked that the European Union (EU) take action in September on nine biotechnology products.