WASHINGTON, May 17, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s plan to eliminate USDA’s office of undersecretary for rural development (RD) – currently reporting directly to the Secretary of ...

Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

Back in the late 1990s, a distressing trend took hold in rural America. At that time, rural and urban mortality rates started ...

As of 2019, working-age adults in rural areas were 43% more likely to die from natural causes than their urban counterparts.

As of 2019, working-age adults in rural areas were 43 percent more likely to die from natural causes than their urban ...

A rusty water pipe in Humboldt sprung two leaks after prior repairs. The City of Humboldt received close to $13 million in loans and grants from USDA Rural Development to replace distribution piping, ...

March 26 (UPI) --U.S. Department of Agriculture removed prior requirements related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and climate change from rural grant funding requests to support U.S ...

When the USDA Rural Development was looking for somewhere to announce the awarding of a grant, they turned to a place that works hard at developing small, rural businesses: Somerset. Representatives ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has awarded $615,644 to support four projects in South Carolina. Tom Vilsack, the secretary of the United States Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment on Tuesday to help bring affordable clean energy to rural communities throughout the country. Rural electric cooperatives, ...

In California’s Tulare County, the adjacent towns of Cutler and Orosi have long benefited from USDA rural development programs that have helped provide access to water and sewer systems and housing ...