As part of its sweeping reorganization plans, the Agriculture Department is telling at least some federal employees they have until the end of the month to decide whether they will pick up and relocate — or otherwise resign from their jobs.

Rural Maryland Council Executive Director Charlotte Davis says the federal agricultural research facility in Beltsville is "such an important part of the rural economy” -- which is why she and others are concerned about its threatened closure by the administration.

U.S. Forest Service headquarters will move from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday, a move the agency described as a “common-sense approach to improve mission delivery.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building to the General Services Administration in a step toward shrinking the department’s footprint in and around Washington, D.C., Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday.