Federal workers keep America’s farms healthy. What now under Trump?

The editor

Cows are milked at the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University on Dec. 11, 2024, in Ithaca, N.Y., shortly after the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a federal order requiring testing of the nation

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump’s massive government downsizing.

(Image credit: Michael M. Santiago)