Rural school leaders and other local officials have repeatedly warned Beacon Hill lawmakers that their schools are sliding ...

Churchill Stateside Group, LLC ("CSG") is pleased to announce the closing of a $1,432,200 USDA Rural Development (RD) Section 538 Option 1 permanent loan for The Covenant Senior Housing, a newly ...

Inside the Delphi Opera House, the Chamber and its BizExcel Small Business Development Program revealed a new federal USDA Rural Business Development Grant — the third grant awarded locally to help ...

U.S. Wheat Associates celebrated the announcement that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service has awarded more than $212 million through the Market Access Program and ...

U.S. Rep. Dave Taylor (OH-02) has introduced legislation aimed at extending federal support for water infrastructure ...

In communities where agriculture is central to local identity and economy, opposition to wind and solar projects is reshaping the pace and location of energy investments.

When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their first year was relatively ...

HARRISBURG, PA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it invested $480 million in rural Pennsylvania during fiscal year ...

In this excerpt from MortgagePoint magazine’s January cover story, we put federal rural lending and liquidity programs in the spotlight. In this first segment, we take a look at the USDA’s loan ...

Despite historic investments in conservation funding through last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill, farmers are facing mounting challenges as USDA staffing levels fail to keep pace with the demand for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden today, Jan. 19, unveiled the Lender Lens on the Rural Data Gateway. This dashboard will make Rural Development’s ...