As the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) makes sweeping demands on states and their contractors for the sensitive, personal data of tens of millions of food assistance recipients, one payment ...

ManureDB, a publicly available database, houses U.S. manure and organic amendment data from multiple laboratory sources. The ...

The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, ...

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The United States Department of Agriculture says it will restore climate-related information on its websites, following a lawsuit filed earlier this year by agriculture and environmental groups that ...

WASHINGTON, September 30 - Market-sensitive commodity data reports released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and nutrition programs that feed millions of Americans could be vulnerable to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state of Kansas are at an impasse over a federal demand for food stamp recipient data. Kansas has refused to provide the data due to privacy concerns, ...

Trump administration officials say the new data sharing requirements are meant to help prevent waste, fraud and abuse. California and other states questioned the administration’s intentions and said ...