The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has formally petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to scrap what it calls ...

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s plan to eliminate USDA’s office of undersecretary for rural development (RD) – currently reporting directly to the Secretary of ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 6, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that projects in 17 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will receive loan and grant assistance to create jobs ...

Texas Tech University’s School of Veterinary Medicine is tackling the nationwide shortage of food animal veterinarians with ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making more than $8 million in grants and loans to rural Iowa cities for improvements ...

A congressional directive to spend $3 million on rural grants to "socially disadvantaged" farmers and business owners may not ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has awarded $615,644 to support four projects in South Carolina. Tom Vilsack, the secretary of the United States Department of ...

The USDA grant will help fund the creation of the Rural Economic Development and Innovation, or REDI, Initiative, which will ...

Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ to release $10.8 billion, which includes $2.5 billion in loan subsidies, ...

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 ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota has been awarded $199 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to support the ...

USDA home loans can help low-income homebuyers buy a house in a rural area with a 0% down payment and a low interest rate.