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Hawaiʻi program leaders say there are few alternative funding options available to local farmers who want to increase and ...
Industry advocates approve of the changes, but caution there are still unanswered policy questions that they want addressed.
The agency is eliminating the Regional Food Business Centers, a program meant to help small farms and other food businesses build local infrastructure.
It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps ...
USDA Programs. The Housing Assistance Council’s budget analysis points out that the request “for fiscal year 2023 proposes funding increases for almost every [USDA] rural housing program, along with ...
ST. LOUIS — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has officially opened a new, modernized Midwestern Food Safety Laboratory ...
The Agriculture Department would get $560 million more for rural broadband expansion, plus increases for research, food aid and combating animal and plant diseases, under a House spending bill for ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Department of Agriculture plans to cancel more than a billion dollars of funding this year. With more slashes expected from Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...
Among the grants announced last week was $750,000 to a non-profit in Alabama that helps educate “African American farmers and other low-income people” about USDA support programs.
The Department of Agriculture is considering how and when to bring feds back to the office, but more telework might be in the offing, the agriculture secretary said Tuesday at a budget hearing.
USDA funding has been restored to the University of Maine after it was frozen on Monday, Sen. Susan Collins' office said Wednesday night. Collins' office said that after the Republican senator ...
The USDA cut funding for the local food purchase assistance cooperative agreement program which according […] FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Department of Agriculture plans to cancel more than ...