USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

Hickory Hill Dairy in Edgefield, South Carolina, was able to start bottling its milk after receiving a Value-Added Producer Grant from USDA. (Hickory Hill photo) When the Cordi family lost nearly 70% ...

Do not get between reality and political forces in Congress when Republicans and Democrats agree to spend more money on farm ...

Federal agriculture department loses field staff as farmers face delays accessing newly approved conservation funding.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over two decades, Bruce Everly has been helping Indiana farmers apply for funding from the federal Rural Energy for America ...

The “ Emergency Rural Water Response Act ,” from Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Jon Husted (R-Ohio), would expand eligibility to the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Community Water Assistance ...

The pause is expected to affect projects on the cusp of securing loan note guarantees, which are used to finalize project financing. Agency staff cited elevated delinquency rates on digester loans in ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Tom Campbell said something he’s enjoyed about becoming North Dakota’s director of Rural Development as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been connecting with people in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement.