The USDA has stopped considering race and gender in its farm loans and benefit programs. USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed the policy shift, following directives from the administration aimed at ...

The agency will no longer use the term "socially disadvantaged," saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination.

Gene editing technologies—such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction projects—can be repurposed to offer what an ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) is a non-profit, public interest environmental organization dedicated to protecting species and their habitats through science, policy, and ...

The Trump administration says the "socially disadvantaged" designation is no longer needed because "past discrimination has ...

On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he announced an end to all federally supported diversity, equity and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will no longer offer increased benefits to minority groups through its programs, ...

It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps ...

The agency published a rule in the federal register that will end the 30-year use of a 'socially disadvantaged' definition ...

The Agriculture Department will no longer recognize groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and women ...

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Memorandum: FAR CD for FAR Part 6 in Support of EO on Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement. On July 9, CFTC issued a CD fully implementing and ...

The United States has the ability to produce nearly everything on grocery store shelves. That’s pretty remarkable.