The Latest Breaking News from USDA

More than merely keeping kids fed, universal school meals “are the healthiest meals that kids are eating"

Prior to this year, the largest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history occurred in 2015, in what the USDA called “arguably the most significant animal health event in U.S. history.”

Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

Africa’s livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as droughts increase in frequency and severity. But cattle farming globally is also one of the causes of climate change. The world’s three billion…

Every Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers market in the city of South Pasadena where it is collected and composted for use in gardens – an effort to reduce the amount of household waste he sends to landfill.

It's an expensive policy with little upside.

Controversial killing method could become preferred option despite vets saying it should only be used as a last resort

The Agriculture Department announced more than $223 million in grants and loans Wednesday to help small and mid-sized meat processing plants expand to help boost competition in the highly concentrated industry

Two decades after an article in The Washington Post, titled “They Die Piece by Piece,” detailed the horrors animals faced in slaughterhouses and exposed federal officials’ paltry enforcement of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA), little has changed. The meat industry and the agency entrusted with regulating it continue…