{"id":390,"date":"2025-08-15T00:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/?p=390"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:16:40","slug":"usda-reorganization-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/2025\/08\/15\/usda-reorganization-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Reorganization Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24, the Secretary of Agriculture issued a memorandum that directs the \u201cthe consolidation, unification, and optimization of functions within the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to achieve improved effectiveness and accountability, enhanced services, reduced bureaucracy and cost savings for the American people.\u201d Their press release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/07\/24\/secretary-rollins-announces-usda-reorganization-restoring-departments-core-mission-supporting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Secretary Rollins Announces USDA Reorganization, Restoring the Department\u2019s Core Mission of Supporting American Agriculture,<\/strong><\/a> summarizes the key points of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>One agency intent is to relocate USDA staff closer to the people they serve. Most of the personnel at their headquarters and in the D.C. area will be moved to five hub locations, including <em>Indianapolis IN<\/em>. Those sites were chosen because they have a higher concentration of USDA employees and a lower cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>The full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/sm-1078-015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Memorandum for the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Plan<\/strong><\/a> is also posted on the agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information about the recently issued memo from the Secretary of Agriculture outlining the details of this plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2025\/08\/2025-08-14-USDA-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}