The Agriculture Department will no longer recognize groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and women as “socially disadvantaged” and deserving of increased benefits. In a final ...

The United States Department of Agriculture is designating nine Maryland counties as natural disaster areas and offering ...

USDA paused new REAP grant awards earlier this year so it could implement new regulations under an executive order tasking ...

The Agriculture Department said that it has redressed decades of historic race- and sex-based discrimination and will no longer be considering that legacy in its grants, loans and other programs. The ...

In his dual roles as a cattle rancher and chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Boyd Gourneau was hopeful that a new ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pausing a loan program aimed at promoting anaerobic digesters — many of which are issued for large-scale farms that turn animal waste into gas — to ...

EXCLUSIVE — Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is abandoning its defense of Biden-era programming that gives preferential treatment to farmers based on race and gender ...

The USDA manure digester loan pause affects many farms. Discover the implications of the extended loan moratorium on projects ...

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 ...