The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to move thousands of employees out of Washington, D.C., aiming to save money and bring them closer to farmers and ranchers.

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.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says shifting thousands of D.C.-based staff to regional offices will save money without interrupting critical services. Previous relocations suggest otherwise.

Across the country, Trump’s immigration raids have roiled farms and farming communities – with cases of worker shortages and fears of unpicked crops.

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.

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 latest: Today, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) requested the Trump administration give a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein case files. More: Schumer criticized the administration’s lack of transparency, and pointed to a Wall Street Journal report that Justice officials told Trump his name was in the files.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a sweeping reorganization and significant staff reductions on Thursday, citing a bloated workforce and rampant overspending during the Biden administration.

The changes are part of the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to cut down and streamline the federal workforce.

The recently announced Trump Tariffs will significantly harm our agriculture sector, especially coconut farmers. For example, increasing the US tariffs for their coconut products from 5 percent to 19 percent will severely affect 3.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that the United States would sell "so much" beef to Australia after Canberra relaxed import restrictions on Thursday, but economists and traders said that high prices and tight supplies make major American exports unlikely.