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In new guidance issued earlier this month, the USDA told states they must turn over data to the agency, through their third-party payment processors, “including but not limited to” names, birth dates, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

ManureDB, a publicly available database, houses U.S. manure and organic amendment data from multiple laboratory sources. The ManureDB website allows for simple summaries, data visualizations and data ...

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 ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is promising big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently helps almost 42 million Americans buy groceries. In recent media ...

Investigate Midwest is a data-centric newsroom. Our weekly Data Harvests aim to visualize key agricultural statistics, and our investigative stories are often rooted in original data analysis. Of the ...