Items Tagged with 'National Institute of Food and Agriculture'

More than 15,000 of approximately 100,000 employees at USDA are preparing to leave the agency after accepting buyout offers that will allow them to keep being paid through the end of September, according to numbers shared with Agri-Pulse by a Capitol Hill source.

Land-grant universities are sounding the alarm about potential damage to agricultural research as USDA goes through a rapid transformation that's likely to include deep funding and staff cuts.

Manjit K. Misra will be the new director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA announced Monday.

USDA employees rate their work experience notably higher than they did a year ago, according to an annual survey published by the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz of OFW Law discusses the need for an increase in the 2024 budget for both the Agriculture Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 

Efforts to establish an agency in USDA to invest in high-risk, high-reward research got a boost at a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday.