U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is visiting a Baltimore high school to highlight opportunities in urban agriculture. The event Friday afternoon at Frederick Douglass High School also includes celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi and Broderick Johnson, chairman of the My Brother’s ...

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says Chesapeake Bay restoration projects will receive more than $18 million in funding.

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Maryland received a $3.4 million bonus incentive payment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for getting food assistance to low-income families, the state announced this week. Maryland is the top-performing state (and second only to the District of Columbia) for ...

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says farmers can begin signing up for new safety net programs next week established in the 2014 farm bill that replace the much-criticized direct payments with government payouts based on risks farmers face.

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WASHINGTON — The government shutdown has slowed or halted federal efforts to protect Americans’ health and safety, from probes into the cause of transportation and workplace accidents to tracking the flu. The latest example: investigating an outbreak of salmonella in ...

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WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department is cracking down on dog breeders who sell puppies over the Internet, issuing new regulations that will force them to apply for federal licenses. The rules announced Tuesday would subject dog owners who breed more ...

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After just one year, some schools around the country are dropping out of the healthier new federal lunch program. They say so many students refused the meals packed with whole grains, fruits and vegetables that their cafeterias were losing money. ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Eight meat and livestock groups have sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Washington to block implementation of a new meat labeling rule. The rule approved in May by the USDA’s Agriculture Marketing ...

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Oklahoma says it’s OK to slaughter horses for meat, but that doesn’t mean it will start to happen yet.

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Farmers intend to plant 97.3 million acres of corn this year, the most since 1936, the USDA’s spring planting survey said Thursday. The overall corn acreage forecast is up slightly from last year’s 97.2 million acres ...

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