The surprise reorg announcement last week was a flash point at a hearing Thursday, where senators expressed displeasure about ...

With the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announcing a major reorganization plan, lawmakers met to grill Deputy ...

Erickson pointed out that Fort Collins’ locality rate is 30.52 percent, resulting in almost no payroll savings. And although Salt Lake City’s locality rate is 17.06 percent, Utah’s public land is ...

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden today vigorously defended the Trump administration’s proposal to reorganize the Agriculture Department at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing. “President ...

The department says it will relocate more than half of its Washington, D.C., staff to five hubs around the country, as well ...

Rollins said USDA may fill vacant positions with people based in the areas of Salt Lake City; Fort Collins, Colorado; ...

Ark., and the ranking member, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, have called for a hearing on USDA’s reorganization plan. Klobuchar ...

The Agriculture Department received backlash from Democratic senators regarding the decision to decentralize and relocate Washington-based employees.

The California Avocado Commission is applauding a recent move by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restructure key components of ...

USDA's proposed reorganization will make the department's work more challenging, with a "accomplish less with less" approach, ...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar calls the USDA reorganization a "half-baked plan." Sen. Adam Schiff questions whether it will help farmers ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will move thousands of employees out of the nation’s capital in a reorganization the ...