The U.S. has reopened a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce near-record-high beef prices.

McDonald’s is frying up some apple pies to honor America’s 250th birthday.

The return of the screwworm parasite to the U.S. has some politicians trying to figure out who to blame.

The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than a half century.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas.

The White House says China has agreed to increase its imports of U.S. agricultural products like beef and poultry, after President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing last week.

The Associated Press and Grist have collaborated on a project to analyze how federal policy changes on energy are affecting farmers.

Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record.

The Investigators on Local 4 are working to get answers after a viral social media post showed a group of people dumping animal skins into a dumpster in Detroit.

The U.S. has opened its first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades in southern Texas.

Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.

An Idaho company is recalling nearly 3,000 pounds of raw ground beef that may have been contaminated with E.

State officials are working to restore full SNAP benefits to millions of people after the long U.S. government shutdown has finally ended.

President Donald Trump's administration is demanding that states reverse full SNAP benefits issued under recent court orders.

President Donald Trump caused some confusion earlier Tuesday when he appeared to threaten SNAP benefits unless Democrats voted to reopen the government — despite court orders mandating that the administration keep the nation’s largest food program running.

President Donald Trump’s administration says it will partially fund the SNAP food aid program in November after two federal judges required the payments to continue.

Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using emergency reserve funds during the government shutdown.

Thousands of Metro Detroit families could temporarily lose access to food assistance starting Nov. 1 as the federal government shutdown halts funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and 22 other state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), demanding the agency use $6 billion in reserve funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing during a federal shutdown.

Federal funds could begin running dry on Saturday that help tens of millions of Americans buy food for their families and send their toddlers to preschool if the government shutdown persists.

With grocery prices rising and SNAP benefits set to end on Nov. 1, knowing how long your food can last is as important as ever.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1 as the government shutdown drags on.

More than 2.2 million pounds of Korean barbecue pork jerky has been recalled over contamination with pieces of metal.

A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 21 states and Washington, D.

The limiting of duty-free organic sugar imports and new tariffs are expected to cause the prices of all kinds of organic products from granola to yogurt to rise in the coming months.

Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become.

A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand for states to turn over personal data — including names, birthdates, and home addresses — for people who are enrolled in a federally funded food assistance program.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American cattle.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer has alleged in a federal lawsuit that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.

About 17,000 residents of Manitoba in central Canada have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires.

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government over the Trump administration’s attempts to collect the personal information of millions of U.S. residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore webpages related to climate change after it was sued earlier this year over the deletions.

Government data shows U.S. retail egg prices have declined for the first time since October.

Maine officials are suing the administration of President Donald Trump to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports.

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications.

A federal agency says it killed a collard wolf that apparently crossed from Colorado into Wyoming and killed several sheep.

Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.

A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold.

With egg prices soaring, the Trump administration is planning a new strategy for fighting bird flu that stresses vaccinations and tighter biosecurity instead of killing off millions of chickens when the disease strikes a flock.

A freeze on federal loans and grants is sending tremors across the rural U.S. as small business owners fear they won’t get reimbursed for purchases they made to replace polluting irrigation equipment or install solar power.

Egg prices have reached a record high in the U.S. The consumer price index released on Wednesday confirmed what consumers, bakers and food companies already knew: an ongoing bird flu outbreak that began in 2022 are making eggs terribly expensive right now.

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in herds since last year.

The Biden administration is releasing a “roadmap” for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that UP Products, LLC, doing business as Meyer Wholesale, an establishment in Ewen, Michigan, has recalled approximately 400 pounds of sausage products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen.

Here's what to know about safely storing leftovers after Thanksgiving.

A New Hampshire company is working to develop a fleet of autonomous helicopters that it hopes can be used to put out fires, spray crops and handle other dangerous jobs.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

Two dairy workers in California were infected with bird flu, the 15th and 16th human cases detected in the U.S. this year.

California avocado growers are fuming about a U.S. decision to hand over pest inspections of Mexican orchards to the Mexican government.

A Connecticut aquarium where three beluga whales have died from illnesses since 2021 has agreed to settle a federal investigation that found alleged animal care and water quality violations.

The U.S. consumer watchdog has found that low-income families typically pay as much as 60 cents per dollar in fees when paying for school lunches electronically.

Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs.

At least nine people have died after being infected with listeria from eating Boar's Head deli meats tied to a massive recall last month.

At first glance, it looks like an unassuming Iowa farm.

Federal food safety officials say three people have now died in a listeria food poisoning outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meats.

Dozens of bottles of centuries-old, impeccably preserved cherries and berries from the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia have been discovered during an archaeological dig.

Bird flu has been detected in beef for the first time, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat from a single sickened dairy cow was not allowed to enter the nation's food supply and beef remains safe to eat.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will test ground beef for bird flu.

U.S. poultry producers will have to reduce salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to prevent food poisoning.

A field study is being conducted in Alpena County to see if an oral bovine tuberculosis (bTB) vaccine can help protect wild deer.

Salm Partners, LLC has promptly recalled approximately 35,430 pounds of Johnsonville Polish Kielbasa Turkey Sausage due to foreign matter contamination.

In a story published March 25, 2024, about detection of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of commercial birds in the U.S. affected since 2022.

Iowa will not participate in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family over the summer to help with food costs while school is out.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade.

Livestock and poultry producers will need to comply with more specific standards if they want to label their products as organic under final rules announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Recent food recalls have been spurred by foreign objects like rocks, insects and plastic.

Egypt and other lower-income Middle Eastern countries like Lebanon and Pakistan are worried about what comes next after Russia pulled out of a crucial wartime grain deal.

Due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the Purdue Premium Meat Company has recalled 3,384 pounds of fully cooked beef hot dog products in Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will invest $300 million on monitoring and reporting planet-warming emissions from climate-smart agricultural processes, such as no-till agriculture and planting cover crops.

Smaller meat and poultry operators in 17 states will receive $115 million in grants.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat and poultry packaging with new guidance and testing.

With a warm and sunny Memorial Day weekend upon us, many have undoubtedly made plans to fire up the barbecue pit for the first time this season.

California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens the already critically endangered vulture species.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment on Tuesday to help bring affordable clean energy to rural communities throughout the country.

Check your fridge and freezer -- thousands of pounds of beef shipped to Michigan is being recalled for possible E. coli.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has recalled 3,436 pounds of Boneless beef chuck product as it may be contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.

The federal government is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska.

The federal government has announced another $325 million for agricultural projects that are intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A class-action lawsuit says the federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers.

Foster Farms has recalled 148,000 pounds of fully cooked frozen chicken breast patties due to possible foreign matter contamination.

The federal government has announced a program to provide $1.3 billion in debt relief for about 36,000 farmers who have fallen behind on loan payments or face foreclosure.

AdvancePierre Foods Inc. is recalling 4,137 pounds of pork loin steak fritter product that may be contaminated with foreign materials.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed in an effort to reduce salmonella illnesses from food contamination.

It used to be that organic crops were an oddity, destined for health food stores or maybe a few farmers markets.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert due to concern that ground beef products in HelloFresh subscription meal kits may be associated with E. Coli O157:H7 illness.

There is a limited amount of farmland, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S. farmers could do to meet the new demand.

The U.S. government has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes in 13 states from Maine to Alabama.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations that would force food processors to reduce the amount of salmonella bacteria found in some raw chicken products or risk shutdowns.

HPAI continues to spread within Washtenaw County bird populations and around Michigan.

More than a dozen jerky products under dozens of product names and labels are being recalled due to a concern of possible Listeria contamination, officials announced Friday.

A federal watchdog says the Trump administration overpaid corn farmers by about $3 billion in federal aid in 2019 and that farmers in the South were paid more for the same crops than elsewhere in the country.

Federal health officials are rethinking their approach to controlling salmonella in poultry plants in the hope of reducing the number of illnesses linked to the bacteria each year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be issuing $307 million in grants and low-interest loans to modernize rural water infrastructure across 34 states and the territory of Puerto Rico.

The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country’s largest meat processors as part of a plan to encourage more competition in agriculture.

A drought blanketing the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving famers scrambling for water.

Voracious grasshoppers emerging in huge numbers are threatening to eat their way through vast areas of western rangeland where cattle graze.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declined a request by the pork industry to increase the speed at which pigs can be processed into meat.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a recall Monday on a frozen foodservice soup product due to undeclared allergens and misbranding.