Farmer Barry Evans drops dusty soil from a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat in Kress, Texas. Funding freezes threaten to halt the $11 billion dedicated to two land conservation ...

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 ...

On a cool morning in early June, Ram Khatiwoda, the farm coordinator at the New Roots farm in West Sacramento, California, took a visitor through the garden plots on a strip of land sandwiched between ...

A $221.2 million USDA grant to aid North Carolina farmers facing aftereffects of Hurricane Helene has been given to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. In the wake of ...

Four days a week, Maile Auterson and one of her employees drive hundreds of miles across Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas to deliver fresh produce to food deserts. Auterson's nonprofit, Springfield ...

The deal to reopen the government includes new federal funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Iowa farm leaders say it’s welcome progress but only a temporary fix to much bigger challenges.

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 ...

Karen Bottary grows basil indoors near Kansas City. She was approved for about $40,000 in federal grant funding through the Regional Food Business Centers program, but says she still hasn't received ...

The USDA is suspending all federal funding to Minnesota after a fraud scandal was uncovered involving several childcare grant programs in the state.

BEING NEGOTIATED RIGHT NOW IN WASHINGTON. ONE ROW, I GOT THREE AND A HALF BIG TOTES OF ARUGULA OUT OF IT. IF ORGANIC FARMERS WEREN’T SO BUSY WORKING, THEY’D HAVE MORE TIME TO BE OUTRAGED. THE LAST ...