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 ...

Georgia’s governor signed multiple bills to aid rural communities, the USDA confirmed plans to relocate researchers to Nebraska, and Huawei expanded digital skills programs in South Africa. These ...

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

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 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $1.48 million in grants to Kansas business owners to increase the availability of domestic biofuels. The USDA Rural ...

It's been a turbulent couple of months at the government agency committed to helping rural economies. It's called USDA Rural Development, and the turmoil it faces may erode a major source of federal ...

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 ...

Strategic Investment to Deploy 315 Miles of New Fiber, Connecting 3,000+ Homes and Businesses in Cache, Summit, Utah, ...

PASCO, Wash. – Franklin County Commissioners will meet with USDA Rural Development State Director Kirk Pearson to explore potential funding opportunities, according to a release by the commission.