President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency touted canceling a USDA contract for NBAF in Kansas, saving $0 in government spending.

Roger Marshall’s (R - Kansas) office about layoffs at NBAF went unreturned Wednesday ... Kansas), who represents constituents in Manhattan, did not have a comment available Wednesday morning ...

NBAF is a U.S. Department of Agriculture biosecurity laboratory in Manhattan that performs animal ... to proceed and if there is any impact on Kansas agriculture.

Kansas Farm Bureau president Joe Newland said, "We're concerned about the layoffs" of federal employees by DOGE and closure ...

The federal workforce reduction has trickled down to Manhattan, Kansas. Dozens of USDA employees at two separate agricultural research and prevention facilities in the Little Apple were laid off.

The NBAF in Manhattan replaced the Plum Island Animal Disease Center ... Multiple other positions under the USDA have been impacted by federal layoffs in Kansas such as with the Natural Resources ...

Like at NBAF, USDA declined to bring back people who support the research but are not lead scientists. But without those staff, Dairy Forage still isn’t fully operational, two people said.

But with some of that stuff within NBAF, some of it’s just high enough security level ... had been fired from the biosafety level 4 research laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas. Steele says he’s ...

The NBAF in Manhattan replaced the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) which was opened in 1954 to protect the nation from diseases like African swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease.

NBAF answers to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which answers to the president. Dozens more USDA jobs in Kansas also got the axe, many from a sub-agency called the Natural Resources ...