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USDA relocations curtail agriculture research, farmer confidence By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press,Updated March 6, 2021, 1:09 p.m. Email to a Friend Adrian Polansky, a farmer and former executive director of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency office in Kansas during the Obama administration, in his seed processing plant near Belleville, Kan.Orlin Wagner/Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — More than a year after two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies were moved from the nation’s capital to Kansas City, Missouri, forcing a mass exodus of employees who couldnâ€...

The decision to move the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture was pitched as putting them closer to farmers.