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 ...
Iowa farmers and institutions lost an estimated $11.3 million in federal funding to support the purchase of locally raised foods, following the recent termination of two U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.
Since 2013, the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program has awarded $100 million for a total of 1,275 projects. The USDA will award up to $18 million through a program that connects schools with ...
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service announced last week that it will cut the Regional Food Business Center (RFBC) program, which provides grants to small and medium-sized local farm and food ...
The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program, which provides scholarships to students attending HBCUs for agriculture-related studies, has reopened its application process. The program, suspended in ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled last week that it already “sufficiently addressed” past discrimination and that continuing to practice “race- and sex-based remedies” are no longer necessary ...
Frederick County’s Agriculture Innovation Grant Program has been recognized with the Rural Economic Development Award by the Rural Maryland Council, county officials announced. This recognition ...
Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.