USDA released a map showing Chinese-owned farmland in relation to military bases across the U.S. The map was included in USDA’s unveiling of the National Farm Security Action Plan this week, a ...
The Agriculture Department’s new farm security plan should help strengthen federal efforts to track foreign influence over U.S. agriculture, but it could be hampered by a lack of personnel, policy ...
In June, the fragility of our food supply was exposed when foreign nationals, including a member of the Chinese Communist Party, were charged with smuggling a noxious fungus into the United States.
Charles Ray Gibbs drives an old tractor along a fence at the 116-year-old Gibbs Farm. (AP Photo/Wichita Falls Times Record News, Jason Palmer) Several members of the Trump administration’s Cabinet ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has partnered with Palantir Technologies under a $300 million blanket purchase agreement, or BPA, to support the National Farm Security Action Plan and enhance ...
USDA launched a new national framework tying agriculture more directly to national security and signed a formal agreement with the Department of War. Livestock producers will receive more than $1.89 ...
A robust agricultural sector is a key bedrock of American national security because a nation that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself. Food independence ensures that the United States is not ...
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the next step of her “Make Agriculture Great Again initiative” – the USDA’s “National Farm Security Action Plan.” The ...