COLUMBIA, — The USDA has announced that it's ready to accept applications to help regional rural communities fund special projects. Strategic Economic and Community Development (SECD) money will be ...

Iowa farmers and institutions lost an estimated $11.3 million in federal funding to support the purchase of locally raised foods, following the recent termination of two U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

The United States Department of Agriculture is putting effort into a new program that will leverage AI high risk, high reward innovative solutions for modern American farming. The initiative, called ...

The full name of this program is USDA Rural Housing Guaranteed Loan Program. We’ll simplify its name here to the USDA Loan. If you prefer, our office calls it the Meat Loan. This is the first of two ...

USDA settles with Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty lawsuit, removes race-based discrimination in nationwide farming ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON DC (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has canceled approximately $1 billion in food purchasing from local farmers for schools and food banks. Around $660 million that would go towards schools and ...

(SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS WATCH) - In his dual roles as a cattle rancher and chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Boyd Gourneau was hopeful that a new federal program would help fulfill the dreams of ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its commitment to bolster agricultural programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by allocating $33 million to ...