Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warns over 40 million Americans could lose SNAP food stamp benefits November 1 due to ongoing government shutdown funding crisis.

SNAP benefits, aka "food stamps," have been paused during the government shutdown, likely impacting more than 100,000 across South Jersey alone.

The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid f

Wisconsin joined a multi-state lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to force the release of FoodShare funds before benefits run dry Nov. 1.

A group of Democratic states is suing the Department of Agriculture and its secretary, Brooke Rollins, for failing to use emergency funds to help alleviate the lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits caused by the government shutdown.

SNAP has about $6 billion in the contingency fund — short of the roughly $9 billion needed to cover a full month of the program, putting November benefits in jeopardy.

The most effective way to make beef more affordable isn’t by artificially manipulating the market with imported product,” said Joe Goggins, a coalition member from Montana. “It’s by helping America’s cattle producers enter and stay in the business of raising cattle.

COVINGTON, La. (WLBT) - A bioresearch lab that was home to several escaped monkeys had only one critical USDA violation since 2014, federal records show. On Tuesday, several monkeys from the lab escaped after the truck transporting them crashed on I-59 in Mississippi.