According to a plan released last week by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, in its first reorganization in over two decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stands to lose one of its core ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden has selected Xochitl Torres Small, a former member of the House Ag Committee, as undersecretary of rural development at the Agriculture Department. If confirmed, Torres Small would ...

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 ...

USDA Rural Development recognized the Southeast Tennessee Development District with an award as a Premier Partner for 2011. "Rural Development partners with a lot of organizations, but we wanted to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Arkansas, Jill Floyd, announced that increased grant limits will be available to homeowners in 13 ...

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 ...

USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.