WASHINGTON — Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday ...

A former USDA Program Director pleaded guilty to participating in a $400,000 kickback scheme. His nephew also pleaded guilty.

The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as ...

U.S. Agriculture Department officials have launched an internal investigation into how the agency handled reports of serious problems at a Boar’s Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly listeria ...

The Horse Protection Act, passed in 1970, was supposed to put an end to soring. However, a 2010 USDA inspector general’s report confirmed that the current system of enforcing the law is broken and ...