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 ...

Enrollment rates for two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs spiked after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated billions of dollars to them, but agriculture experts warn ...

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 ...

Virginia has become the first state in the nation to roll out the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Recovery Block Grant Program, providing direct financial assistance to farmers and timber ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...