Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ ...

Trump’s USDA has stalled the program, which supports business development for local and regional farms, since the ...

A major piece of legislation that backers hope will usher in a modern-day renaissance in rural communities across Florida has the full support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ).

The Trump administration is planning to severely scale back or outright eliminate funding for many programs across the ...

Thousands of schools, farmers and food pantries in the Midwest and Great Plains planned on federal dollars over the next year ...

On March 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will release grant money through REAP and two other clean energy programs partly supported by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. But there ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture paused funding for certain Maine educational programs on Wednesday, citing the state’s ...

If Republicans had a path to winning the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday, it started in the rural counties that pulled Donald Trump to victory in 2016 and 2024. If the GOP-backed candidate ...

More than 60 million U.S. adults live in rural communities, and heart disease remains the nation's leading cause of death. In this study, 1 in 7 adults lived in rural areas (counties of less than ...

Jenna Batchelder and her husband Brad have been raising livestock for years. A grant from USDA Rural Development helped them branch out into a successful retail meat business. The USDA's Rural ...