A regional food system partnership that is part of the USDA's LAMP received a mere $4.7 million in grants to seven projects, spread across 10 states. The post USDA pays lip service to local food ...

Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.

The Department of Agriculture plans sweeping changes to the country's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and other USDA-administered welfare programs with the aim of eliminating fraud and ...

Several programs are available to help farmers and ranchers recover from recent wildfires in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

Karen Bottary grows basil indoors near Kansas City. She was approved for about $40,000 in federal grant funding through the Regional Food Business Centers program, but says she still hasn't received ...

The Agriculture Department is reviewing 15 of its programs amid ongoing Trump Administration scrutiny over spending, according to a list provided to Agri-Pulse on Thursday by Senate Ag Committee ...

In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration, the federal funding landscape has been radically changed — especially for the people who grow, harvest, and distribute food.

The Agriculture Department will no longer recognize groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and women as “socially disadvantaged” and deserving of increased benefits. In a final ...

Although the efforts of staff working for the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) have not drawn banner headlines at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the way that ...

Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.