Posted on 05/10/2026 4:50:43 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Agriculture Department is embarking on a multi-part plan to relocate employees across its component agencies outside of the Washington, D.C. area.
USDA is moving many more jobs across the country than it did under the first Trump administration, but expects fewer employees will turn down relocation offers this time around.
However, two unions representing impacted USDA employees say the relocations will cause more disruption than department leaders anticipate.
For the second time in seven years, USDA is looking to move D.C.-based employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to Kansas City.
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This is an agency I don’t think we really need. Just close it down.
Wonderful, the more resignations the better.
“We ain’t gonna smell no stinkin’ cows!”
“ There are NO farms in the DC area.”
That’s not true. There are very large USDA research farms just north of DC.
Move all the agencies.
Move everyone to North Dakota. We need smaller government.
They won’t move? Good! Fire them.
Roll this plan out across the federal government. Depopulate DC.
That's meant as a threat
“Move everyone to North Dakota.”
That’s good farm land.
I say move them to Newark, NJ
Kansas City area should provide a better quality of life than DC area.
I've been moved. It was a real strategy to offer a new position where IBM and other corporations wanted their employee. The new position 'over there' is replacing the one 'here.' Worked to motivate relocation of talent and abilities.
“ This is an agency I don’t think we really need. Just close it down.”
Everyone needs food and clothing and construction material, and that research is generally good. Some of the programs supporting farming, which is a risky and often unpredictable undertaking, through loans, insurance, and subsidies are also good.
That said, the USDA has done plenty of boneheaded things and enabled huge fraud and wasteful spending, enough so that its reputation has been badly hurt. It also is involved in programs that should be under other departments control, such as WICS, SNAP, and gasohol.
I dated an Hispanic girl in the 70’s who worked for usda. She answered the phone “poultry and dairy”. I remember thinking “then what”?! I have a question about chickens?
That’s not true. There are very large USDA research farms just north of DC.
That’s just a playground for them ,LOL
Welfare programs like WICS, SNAP, and gasohol should only be at the state level. The Federal Gov’t should not be involved. And I don’t think it’s up to gov’t to fund research, either. That’s for businesses & universities.
We have to get our federal budget under control. It’s quite obvious, at least to me, the FedGov cannot be trusted with these activities.
“Kansas City area should provide a better quality of life than DC area.”
Not without all the fancy bars where they can drool over Obama.
DC bureaucrats believe that All farms are belong to them.
Just like the Dept of Education think that our children are THEIR children.
I think that’s the idea. Good luck finding jobs in DC.
I agree. any sort of federal office should only be for monitoring money being spent by the state. you do not need a verry big office to monitor state agencies spending of federal moneys.
Move them to the most miserable of the unsalvageable blue states. No sense in turning a red state even a bit purple.
I think you answered your own question in the negative when you said “research farms”, aka not a real working farm.
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