Ithaca, voted no. The House has passed a resolution (H. Res. 488), sponsored by Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., to condemn the ...

It was a long cold winter for farmer Craig Sash as he waited for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development ...

CT will operate its own block grant. But lawmakers argued the options from USDA could prevent some farmers from getting ...

No more than 1,000 acres exist of these “wild” fields of organic peanuts, a relatively new venture, in Georgia.

Trump also has signaled he wants to gut the federal CDFI Fund, which serves disadvantaged businesses. Oregon’s Manufacturing ...

Many states had significantly higher minority participation in the USDA loan programs than their agricultural census counts, federal data shows.

Amid new whistleblower allegations, the USDA is accused of not ending Biden-era DEI programming that racially discriminates ...

A whistleblower told NewsNation the Biden administration’s loan program for farmers only provided support to minority farmers.

Currently, the USDA administers hundreds of programs that support the agriculture sector, either through grants and loans ... and rural food systems, and minority and women farmers, according ...

For decades, USDA-approved loans of lesser value for Black farmers compared to their White counterparts or refused them altogether. Minority farmers reported limited access to credit and technical ...