RED WING — Need help buying that first home? Updating a business? The USDA has some solutions. The United States Department of Agriculture has opened its Rural Development program for residents of ...

Both Democratic and Republican senators are pushing for simplified USDA Rural Development program applications, saying the current process is so arduous it favors those who can afford to hire grant ...

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2012- Witnesses defended Rural Development program benefits during the first of eight 2012 Farm Bill subcommittee hearings of the House Agriculture Committee today in Washington, ...

Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture attended a groundbreaking in Southside recently, but it had nothing to do with putting crops in the ground. The groundbreaking was for Southside's ...

In this April 5, 2010 photo, Lisa Kartek stands near an open field and looks toward the home she purchased in Annandale, Minnesota, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development ...

A chart from the 1955 USDA Report on Problems of Low-Income Farmers shows wide regional disparities that the Eisenhower Administration hoped to address with its pilot rural development program. Once ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Tom Campbell said something he’s enjoyed about becoming North Dakota’s director of Rural Development as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been connecting with people in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program, which helps set up buyers with affordable homes in rural areas of Maine, guaranteed 719 loans in the past fiscal year. The top five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayor Dana Snyder spoke to those gathered Nov. 16 for groundbreaking at the new Southside Fire Station, as USDA Alabama Director ...