For 30 Years, This Report Tracked Who Goes Hungry in America — the USDA Just Shut It Down

The USDA recently ended its long-running Household Food Security report, which for decades showed how many families went ...
Times-Standard

USDA cuts key report as food insecurity grows

This weekend, the USDA announced that it would be terminating all future Household Food Security Reports, characterizing them as “redundant, costly, politicize(d), and extraneous studies (that) do ...
Yahoo

Impact of Trump cuts will be harder to track without USDA hunger survey, advocates say

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision to end its annual food insecurity survey will make it harder to measure the impact of the Trump administration's cuts to nutrition ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

USDA will end annual report ranking Arkansas as hungriest state, calling it ‘liberal fodder’

Arkansas soon won't have to worry about being labeled as the hungriest state -- not because of a drop in the number of people ...
AG Week

September USDA crop report lowers U.S. yield estimates

The Sept. 12 USDA National Ag Statistics Service Crop Report adjusted the projected 2025 U.S. average yields for both corn and soybeans slightly lower from the August estimates; however, both the corn ...
Vikings Wire

Termination of USDA survey will make addressing hunger more difficult, NC health dept. says

Between 2021-23, about 11% of North Carolina’s nearly 4.4 million households were food insecure, according to the USDA’s 2023 report. Results of the 2024 survey, its last, are expected to be released ...