The Agriculture Department's Rural Business-Cooperative Service has put a 90-day pause on accepting loan note guarantees for projects involving biodigesters and controlled environment agriculture, ...

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, ...

An APHIS Veterinarian inspecting a goat on a farm in Maryland. (USDA photo) Groups pushing for more help from the federal government to address the country’s shortage of rural veterinarians are ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over two decades, Bruce Everly has been helping Indiana farmers apply for funding from the federal Rural Energy for America ...

“As I started looking through what the (USDA’s rural development) program offered, the terms that were available, there were some things that we could do that we couldn’t do traditionally. And that ...

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 ...

When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their ...

Forty years ago, Aimee V. Hachigian-Gould left Detroit intending to practice orthopedic surgery, and raise cattle on the side. Pretty quickly, she ran into a common challenge among ranchers in her ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will visit Florida on Friday to discuss a United States Department of Agriculture pilot loan program that could help tens of thousands of ...