There are giant holes to fill, but also a huge pool of people with experience in government who are ready to go.
To blunt the pain of tariffs, the government is buying more than $1 billion in surplus food. Much of that will go to food banks.
President Trump calls for the USDA to be cut by 21 percent. Rural areas have a lot of federal employment and funding at stake.
The Department of Agriculture is partnering with the private sector to launch a new investment fund.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks polar vortex, the farm bill, and food prices.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has just released 76 years worth of farming data.
