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USDA gives final approval for faster hog processing line speeds

09.17.2019
H. Claire Brown
USDA’s research employees were just offered drastically reduced buyouts
08.22.2019
by Jesse Hirsch
USDA announces teleworking option for ERS and NIFA researchers through 2019
08.12.2019
by Jessica Fu
Why does participation in the federal summer meals program keep dropping?
07.10.2019
by Jessica Fu
“Everyone here is just so depressed”: USDA’s research employees have two weeks to decide whether to move to Kansas
06.28.2019
by Jessica Fu
How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against Black farmers
06.26.2019
by Nathan Rosenberg + Bryce Wilson Stucki
USDA just changed its definition of jambalaya—with a little help from Leah Chase
06.04.2019
by Sam Bloch
USDA’s independent researchers vote overwhelmingly to form a union
05.09.2019
by Jessica Fu
Taking after Amazon, USDA releases final locations for a new government headquarters
05.03.2019
by Sam Bloch
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