The United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, will close down a major portion of its current headquarters in Washington, D.C., moving some of the staffers to Northern Colorado.

The United States Department of Agriculture will reorganize, refocusing core operations to support American farming, ranching and forestry, the USDA announced.

The USDA updated its demand to states for food assistance applicants' data to include immigration status and information on household members. States face a July 30 deadline to submit the data.

Over the past seven months, Kenneth Sparks lost at least five federal grants as a result of cancellations and funding freezes. The grants would have supported his four-year-old farm, where he grows vegetables,

The agency, which oversees federally funded nutrition programs and supports food safety, says moving more than 2,000 employees outside of the Washington, DC, area will save money and bring staff closer to the people it serves,

Indianapolis will soon serve as one of five U.S. Department of Agriculture hubs as the federal agency reduces and reorganizes its workforce under President Donald Trump's administration, the USDA announced July 24.

In the coming months, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will relocate more than half of its Washington D.C.-based employees to five different regional hubs across the country.

During Trump’s first administration, the USDA in 2019 moved two offices to Kansas City, triggering a mass exodus of government workers and a drop in productivity.

The USDA said no jobs would be eliminated but that some federal employees would be asked to relocate to one of the five new hubs, including Salt Lake City.

Texas will become the seventh state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown meat in September. Florida was the first, followed by Alabama last year. This year, five more states, including Texas, followed.