Farmers across the country are facing mounting challenges as a broad freeze on USDA grants and loans disrupts their ability to finance critical projects. The halt in funding has forced many to put key ...

According to FarmAid, many family farms operate on a "razor-thin" profit margin. Experts issue warning after new USDA policy ends major farming incentives: '[It] is going to hurt … efforts to keep ...

The ground may still be frozen, but a number of Minnesota farmers are growing increasingly worried about what happens if a federal freeze on USDA grants isn't resolved soon. "I don't know what to do I ...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture was ready to implement a $531,236,000 federal block grant to help farmers affected by ...

Farmer Kev's Organics farm sign in West Gardiner, Maine on Feb. 14, 2025. The uncertainty fueled by the Trump administration’s wave of funding and hiring freezes is now being felt by Maine farmers.

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON - Nate Powell-Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service to help build a feed mill - an economic ...

Day by day, nail by nail, Austin Reese is hammering away at what will soon be his new home in the High Country. Reese, who ...

Awardees have until the end of May to make changes to their projects, which are funded by programs set to send billions of dollars into Republican-controlled districts. Agriculture Secretary Brooke ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture invested $89 million — mostly in loans — to rural Tennessee communities to support improvements to electric utilities, critical infrastructure and education. The ...

Flying below it: the federal government's Rural Development program, which generated $385 million in investments in Montana last year. "I want to get the word out that, hey, there's an agency in the U ...

The seventh day of the federal government shutdown came and went Tuesday, and it looked like both sides of the political ...