WASHINGTON, May 17, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s plan to eliminate USDA’s office of undersecretary for rural development (RD) – currently reporting directly to the Secretary of ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 6, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that projects in 17 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will receive loan and grant assistance to create jobs ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has awarded $615,644 to support four projects in South Carolina. Tom Vilsack, the secretary of the United States Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making more than $8 million in grants and loans to rural Iowa cities for improvements ...

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 ...

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, ...

Infrastructure projects in western Iowa are among those receiving a financial boost from USDA Rural Development.

The USDA grant will help fund the creation of the Rural Economic Development and Innovation, or REDI, Initiative, which will ...

The USDA awarded Texas Tech's vet school in Amarillo a $250K grant aimed at strengthening veterinary services in rural and ag ...

Amanda Burke will be based in the agency’s state office in Bangor. With more than 20 years of experience in real estate finance and mortgage lending, Burke leads a team of 13 Rural Development housing ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota has been awarded $199 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to support the ...