Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture was a pre-War department of the United States federal government. The Department of Agriculture was a federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food. It aimed to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural production, work to assure food safety, foster rural communities and end hunger in the United States.

The USDA was created in 1862 by separating it from the Department of the Interior.

Background
Right up until the Great War, the USDA was led by Secretary Thomas Eckhart. Eckhart would use the USDA as a means of siphoning funding for food and other programs meant to help American citizens to the enhance the already existing Whitespring Congressional Bunker under the guise of researching methods for prolonging the food shelf life in the Congressional Bunker Food Preservation Initiative. The amount of time and money funneled by the USDA did not escape notice, especially from Appalachian senator Sam Blackwell and his contacts. Fortunately for Eckhart, the project was not exposed to the public in anyway.

Other projects led by the USDA before the war included the Budding Patriots Initiative based around child nutrition, the National Water Enhancement Initiative done with the Department of Defense to enhance local water supplies with "food additives", the American Crop Protection Initiative which examined biological agents as pesticide, and the Pest Self-Eradication Initiative meant to modify and release pest species to self eliminate.