The Senate has confirmed Iowan Glen Smith to be undersecretary for rural development, filling a position that has been vacant ...

With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new ...

Jenna Batchelder and her husband Brad have been raising livestock for years. A grant from USDA Rural Development helped them branch out into a successful retail meat business. The USDA's Rural ...

An Atlantic farmer and businessman has been confirmed to serve in a federal post overseeing rural development.

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WFRV) – The US Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA RD) is investing nearly $8 million to make necessary upgrades to the sewer system and water main replacements in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Karl ...

Senate Agriculture Committee Democrats are warning that a proposed reorganization of USDA’s Rural Development mission area ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Iowa State Director Mike Sexton participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

Several communities in northwest Iowa will get upgrades to their water systems to help combat aging infrastructure thanks to grants and loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.

Hoffman previously served as the president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and served on the board of directors for the ...

CLEARWATER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Churchill Stateside Group, LLC (“CSG”), a real estate and renewable energy financial services company, is pleased to announce the closing of financing for the ...