Purdue Extension is committed to encouraging and welcoming all. We recognize that we all benefit when we cultivate an inclusive and welcoming community where the unique contributions, talents and ...

USDA’s Equity Commission unanimously approved nearly three dozen recommendations Thursday addressing a swath of issues, including the diversity of county committees, funding for minority-serving ...

When Tom Vilsack became head of the Agriculture Department last year, he faced a backlog of 11,000 civil rights complaints and several unresolved class-action lawsuits from minority farmers and ...

I have never seen a U.S. Department of Agriculture like this one. At the very beginning of the Obama administration, Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, has developed initiatives to address the ...

Agriculture Department employees found to have engaged in discriminatory actions would be subject to discipline ranging from a letter of reprimand to dismissal under a bill filed Thursday by Rep.

Before I was sworn in as Secretary of Agriculture, recent folks who had the job—both Republican and Democratic—suggested that it was important that I set a new, proactive course to move past USDA’s ...

The nominee said he’ll stand by laws against discrimination at the Department of Agriculture. The Trump administration’s pick to head the Agriculture Department’s civil rights office acknowledged ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials charge that a spending ceiling in the House farm bill inserted because of pay-as-you-go budgetary rules will prevent thousands of black farmers from ...

The department has launched the Agriculture Learning System to provide one-stop learning services for USDA employees nationwide. The Agriculture Department has launched the Agriculture Learning System ...