Consider the sugar beet, a sweet and tapered tuber. Unlike tropical sugarcane, sugar beets grow in temperate zones, enabling ...

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out ...

The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board issued a 45-day stay on the termination of 5,692 USDA probationary employees.

Dog trainers are just one example of the kind of highly specialized USDA staff that have been removed from their stations in ...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the Trump administration "lied" about its reasons for the mass terminations of ...

Dog trainers are just one example of the kind of highly specialized USDA staff that have been removed from their stations in recent weeks. Teams devoted to inspecting plant and food imports have been ...

Jacob Bushno, a federal employee from Illinois, served two tours in Iraq as part of the Army’s air assault division before ...

Some fired federal employees received letters on Monday notifying them they were “reinstated” according to a federal court order, but on “paid, non-duty” status, a type of administrative leave. The U.

A federal court has ordered U.S. Department of Agriculture and other agencies to reinstate probationary employees unlawfully ...

President Donald Trump’s administration accidentally fired several USDA staff members who were working on the bird flu outbreak. Now, the department is working to rescind those terminations. Rep. Don ...