President Trump’s proposed budget for next year could include big changes for a small food aid program that helps low-income senior citizens supplement their diets. Under the plan, funding for the program — called the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) — would be cut, and seniors instead would receive what the Trump administration is calling…
As ongoing inflation continues to deplete household budgets, perhaps nowhere is the pinch felt more strongly than in grocery aisles. However, depending on where you live, the pain can be sharper than in other areas. That’s according to a new study from SmartAsset which reveals notable fluctuations in grocery price increases from city to city. The financial technology…
SELBYVILLE, DE – The People’s Republic of China is reportedly halting imports from local agricultural food production and processing company Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Inc. The announcement comes the same day China announced retaliatory tariffs on all U.S. imports beginning April 10 in response to President Donald Trump’s order of “reciprocal” tariffs against the East…
Ways to improve school lunch nutrition Ways to improve school lunch nutrition 03:50 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting two federal programs that provided about $1 billion in funding to schools and food banks to buy food directly from local farms, ranchers and producers, part of what the agency said was a decision to…
Federal health agencies oppose the use of bird flu vaccines in poultry right now, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, weighing in publicly on it for the first time in his new role. The Trump administration has been considering poultry vaccination as it seeks to combat the outbreak that is fueling…
Wisconsin dairy farms face uncertainty amid immigration crackdown – CBS News Watch CBS News According to the Department of Agriculture, more than 40% of the country’s farm workers are undocumented immigrants. Camilo Montoya-Galvez traveled to a dairy farm in Wisconsin to report on the tension between cheap labor and the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Be…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it is trying to rehire bird flu experts that the agency accidentally fired as part of its efforts to cut costs based on recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. “Although several positions supporting [highly pathogenic avian influenza] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we…