States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but it's not just hospitals vying for the ...

The best window to understanding our current price mess is to review current U.S. farm policy, writes Thomas Dorr.

It may not seem like it right now, but at some point the federal government will get back to work. When it does, an area man will be playing the lead role in managing the United States Department of ...

Iowa ranks eighth in the nation for the oldest stockpile of houses, according to some estimates. The former director of USDA ...

On September 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a Lapse of Funding Plan prior to the anticipated government shutdown, which occurred on October 1, 2025. According to the USDA ...

President-elect Joe Biden has promised to address racial inequality in agriculture. But some Black farmers aren't so sure he picked the right man for the job after settling on former Iowa Governor Tom ...

When the federal government shuts down, American farmers feel the strain across nearly every area of their work. Essential programs from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that farmers depend ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Beth Walker Green has been appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the USDA Rural Development State Director for the state of ...

Nearly half of U.S. Department of Agriculture employees will be furloughed during the federal government shutdown.

While the second iteration of the opportunity zone program is still more than a year away from launching, the federal government released new guidance for a rural benefit that investors can take ...

More than 100 rural grocery stores in Kansas closed their doors from 2008 to 2018. But an initiative that invests in rural communities is keeping small groceries afloat. AXTELL, KANSAS — When visiting ...

PRINCEVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Members of the USDA Rural Development participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Edgecombe County’s Public Works today. Rural Development invested $9.3 million in USDA ...