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 ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa State University, alongside cooperatives and businesses throughout Iowa, have received federal funding to support agriculture and manufacturing, ...

President Joe Biden has selected Xochitl Torres Small, a former member of the House Ag Committee, as undersecretary of rural development at the Agriculture Department. If confirmed, Torres Small would ...

MORGANTOWN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development West Virginia State Director John Reisenweber announced that five organizations will receive a total of $351,000 to support rural busi ...

President Trump’s fiscal 2027 federal budget outline, released on April 3, 2026, proposes to fund most of the U.S. Department ...

Amanda Burke will be based in the agency’s state office in Bangor. With more than 20 years of experience in real estate finance and mortgage lending, Burke leads a team of 13 Rural Development housing ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Arkansas, Jill Floyd, announced that increased grant limits will be available to homeowners in 13 ...

Six months ago, the Biden administration signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small and ...