Items Tagged with 'Scott Hutchins'

USDA food safety and scientific research personnel will be moved out of Washington to locations across the country, including to a new food safety center in Iowa.

A new Agricultural Research Service initiative to test the effectiveness of AgTech products will begin with some pilots in 2026 and scale up in coming years, a USDA official told Agri-Pulse Tuesday.

The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday confirmed three new undersecretaries for USDA, Richard Fordyce, Dudley Hoskins and Scott Hutchins.

The Agriculture Department is a step closer to getting three new undersecretaries after the GOP-controlled Senate voted Wednesday to advance the first package of nominees under a new fast-track process Republicans are employing to break a Democratic logjam.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says that most countries will pay the higher duties President Donald Trump has outlined in recent letters to global leaders, even as trade discussions continue.

Bird flu dollars in doubt * MAHA Day * USDA plan in the dock * UK backtracking on biotech?

President Donald Trump's nominees to lead USDA's regulatory and research programs, Dudley Hoskins and Scott Hutchins, faced questioning from the Senate Ag Committee as to how they would deal with brain drain resulting from the loss of staff through recent buyouts.