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, ...
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 ...
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Uncertainty Around USDA’s Rural Development Funding Continues Amidst Staffing Cuts and Office Closures
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work together on the ...
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 ...
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Fear over farmland loss is slowing renewable energy development in rural areas
When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their ...
This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a ...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) doesn't just inspect meat, it also offers rural development mortgages. Surprisingly, USDA home loans remain one of the lesser known options for home ...
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