Rollins Announces USDA Reorganization

Last week, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a new reorganization plan for the USDA.  She said the plan refocuses its core operations to better align with its founding mission of supporting U.S. farming, ranching, and forestry.  The reorganization plan consists of four parts:

• ensuring the size of USDA’s workforce aligns with available financial resources and agricultural priorities
• bringing USDA closer to its customers
• eliminating management layers and bureaucracy
• consolidating redundant support functions.  

To bring USDA closer to the people it serves while providing a more affordable cost of living for employees, USDA has developed a phased in plan to relocate much of its agency headquarters and staff out of the Washington, D.C. area to five hub locations. USDA’s five hub locations are Raleigh, NC; Kansas City; Indianapolis; Fort Collins, CO and Salt Lake City.

President Trump Was Elected To Make Real Change

“American agriculture feeds, clothes, and fuels this nation and the world, and it is long past time the Department better serve the great and patriotic farmers, ranchers, and producers we are mandated to support," Rollins said.  "President Trump was elected to make real change in Washington, and we are doing just that by moving our key services outside the beltway and into great American cities across the country.  We will do so through a transparent and common-sense process that preserves USDA’s critical health and public safety services the American public relies on. We will do right by the great American people who we serve and with respect to the thousands of hardworking USDA employees who so nobly serve their country.”

Click Here to read Rollins' memorandum.

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