USDA – Desdemona Despair

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, shown here on Capitol Hill in April 2019, announced in June 2019 that most staff from two USDA research agencies were being relocated to the Kansas City region. The American Federation of Government Employees said of the move, “Evidence suggests that the relocation of these agencies is an attempt to hollow out and dismantle USDA science that helps farmers and protects our food supply.” Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP

July 20, 2019

Scientists desert USDA as Trump admin relocates agency to Kansas City area – “The relocation of these agencies is an attempt to hollow out and dismantle USDA science that helps farmers and protects our food supply”

By Merrit Kennedy 17 July 2019 (NPR) – Two vital research agencies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are hemorrhaging staff as less than two-thirds of the researchers asked to relocate from Washington to the Kansas City area have agreed to do so. When U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the planned new location […]