The Latest Breaking News from USDA

More than merely keeping kids fed, universal school meals “are the healthiest meals that kids are eating"

Prior to this year, the largest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history occurred in 2015, in what the USDA called “arguably the most significant animal health event in U.S. history.”

A new study finds that few Americans have heard of MyPlate, the government diet guide that replaced the long-standing food pyramid

Regulators are beginning to smile on the sci-fi project of creating real meat products without the typical death and environmental destruction.

At least five counties in the U.S. have more turkeys than people.

Is there a frozen turkey in your freezer? It may already be time to move it to the fridge . . .

Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

Africa’s livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as droughts increase in frequency and severity. But cattle farming globally is also one of the causes of climate change. The world’s three billion…

One of the country's biggest crops isn't even used much for food.

Every Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers market in the city of South Pasadena where it is collected and composted for use in gardens – an effort to reduce the amount of household waste he sends to landfill.

It's an expensive policy with little upside.