Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.

A regional food system partnership that is part of the USDA's LAMP received a mere $4.7 million in grants to seven projects, spread across 10 states. The post USDA pays lip service to local food ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled last week that it already “sufficiently addressed” past discrimination and that continuing to practice “race- and sex-based remedies” are no longer necessary ...

Kitchen staff at the Clear Lake Middle School in northern Iowa slice local apples as one of the fruit options for lunch. Hundreds of Iowa farmers, schools and food banks planned on federal dollars ...

Enrollment rates for two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs spiked after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated billions of dollars to them, but agriculture experts warn ...

The Agriculture Department is reviewing 15 of its programs amid ongoing Trump Administration scrutiny over spending, according to a list provided to Agri-Pulse on Thursday by Senate Ag Committee ...

In recent weeks, the Trump administration rolled out two financial assistance programs that would benefit US sugar producers. The first program, announced on Feb. 13 by US Secretary of Agriculture ...

It’s been a tough couple of years for local food banks and the people they serve. The COVID-19 pandemic led hundreds of thousands more Washingtonians to visit food banks and pantries to feed ...

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday, claiming the agency is continuing discriminatory practices established under ...

The Agriculture Department said that it has redressed decades of historic race- and sex-based discrimination and will no longer be considering that legacy in its grants, loans and other programs. The ...

Farmer Barry Evans drops dusty soil from a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat in Kress, Texas. Funding freezes threaten to halt the $11 billion dedicated to two land conservation ...