The letter follows another, sent last week, by a different group of House Democrats, on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Those Representatives also referenced the negative impacts of the ...

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The agency hosted a week-long “Great American Farmers' Market” on the National Mall last week instead of its traditional summer-long market.

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August 15, 2025 – Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee sent Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins an eight-page letter on Wednesday, asking for more information about her plan to ...

At California’s Hedgerow Farms, specialists produce seeds to revegetate burned areas, reestablish wetlands, and transform drought-prone farmland.

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After two decades and the recent death of its founder, a downtown farm grapples with its future amid a changing neighborhood and changing city.

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