USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of ...

Significant cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by the Trump administration have reduced staff working locally for the Rural Development program, including in New Mexico and a former USDA ...

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.

A hallmark of Colorado’s 8th Congressional District is agricultural lands increasingly surrounded and sometimes overtaken by growing, urbanizing communities. Mayors, county commissioners and city ...

This year, Congress is charged with passing the next iteration of the farm bill. If the broad suite of programs within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are not reauthorized by the ...

In 2014, Mesa County was losing a lot of its workforce to the Front Range, even though the state and national economies were doing well. That dilemma led to the creation of the statewide Rural ...

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2023—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$345 million loan that supports China’s global public goods agenda by promoting the greening of agriculture ...