Brooke Rollins is confirmed as Trump's secretary of agriculture, taking a key post amid growing fights over tariffs.

Q. You recently granted 68 subsistence-ag lots on the Big Island and plan to award more of them. What are agricultural lots and why haven’t more of them been awarded since the late 1980’s?

Since the onset of the oil boom in 1971, Nigerians have been moving to the cities without the expected agricultural revolution that replaces subsistence farming with mechanised and modern farming ...

Previously she was employed by the agency as Deputy Secretary (2009-2013) and Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator (1999-2001) The modern U.S. Department of Agriculture is a sprawling ...