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 ...

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa State University, alongside cooperatives and businesses throughout Iowa, have received federal funding to support agriculture and manufacturing, ...

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 ...

MORGANTOWN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development West Virginia State Director John Reisenweber announced that five organizations will receive a total of $351,000 to support rural busi ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $1.48 million in grants to Kansas business owners to increase the availability of domestic biofuels. The USDA Rural ...

President Trump’s fiscal 2027 federal budget outline, released on April 3, 2026, proposes to fund most of the U.S. Department ...

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 ...

PASCO, Wash. – Franklin County Commissioners will meet with USDA Rural Development State Director Kirk Pearson to explore potential funding opportunities, according to a release by the commission.