The USDA announced earlier this month it was ending a $3 billion program to help farmers use climate-friendly practices. (Preston Keres | USDA) In the first months of the administration of President ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON DC (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that ...

PNW will receive $292,000 over four years from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through an initiative meant to attract students from underrepresented groups to ...

Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ to release $10.8 billion, which includes $2.5 billion in loan subsidies, ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration attempts to lower inflation by reducing government spending, Americans are finding out the very programs putting healthy, affordable foods on their plates ...

Young Family Farm in Kansas City. A now-cancelled USDA grant could have helped the farm sell more produce by expanding a farmers market. Tammy Ljungblad Tljungblad@kcstar.com Reality Check is a Star ...

Farmers who were left in limbo after the U.S. Department of Agriculture froze renewable energy grants are finally starting to get paid. At the same time, however, farmers have been hit with the ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's termination of federal funding for a program seeking to restore urban tree canopies in low-income areas will leave one Nashville-based nonprofit and the tree ...

WASHINGTON – A Minnesota agriculture group says the Trump administration’s canceling of so-called DEI grants in farm country broke the law and imperiled a food network initiative’s future, in a ...

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 ...