When the Trump administration relocated the USDA's Economic Research Service to the Kansas City area, about two-thirds of its employees quit. That has stimulated a “brain drain” that “directly or indirectly effects” everyone in the U.S, one expert says.
, a nonpartisan federal research agency, provides objective economic data and analysis on farming forecasts, crop and livestock predictions, the environment, food consumption and the consumer price index for food. Their forecasts and reports are “heavily relied on” in the U.S. government, Pietruska says.
But Pietruska says critics — including the Union of Concerned Scientists — believe the Trump administration moved the ERS away from the Department of Agriculture’s base in Washington, D.C., to suppress facts, since the data the ERS publicizes isn’t “politically convenient for the current administration.”
The ERS was established in 1862 in order to regulate speculators who were manipulating commodity markets and taking advantage of farmers, she says. At a time when farmers had little agency over crop prices, the ERS was able to help stabilize a key part of the American economy.
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