A state lawmaker from southwest Missouri is joining the Trump Administration. State Rep. Ben Baker, R-Neosho, has been chosen ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the latest slate of presidential appointments for key Farm Service ...

Rep. Ben Baker, who has represented Newton County in the House since 2019, will be USDA’s State Director for Rural ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the latest slate of presidential appointments for key Farm Service ...

On Friday, officials announced Dane Maxwell has been appointed by President Donald Trump as the USDA State Director of ...

Roger Glendenning, distinguished alumnus from the University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, served ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will distribute $340.6 million in disaster assistance to help farmers and rural ...

Subjective well-being encompasses the cognitive and emotional evaluations of people’s lives, reflecting positive and negative aspects of their psychological health. Positive subjective well-being ...

Experts at the UVM Cancer Center say people in rural communities are 17% more likely to die from cancer. North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik calls the New York State Assembly’s passage of the ...

Welch says those reductions include buyouts and early retirement offers for USDA Rural Development offices in Vermont and New Hampshire. “President Trump’s actions to undermine USDA-RD is a ...

VermontBiz U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s efforts to ...

program —is managed by the USDA’s Rural Development arm. The department provides grants and low-cost loans to farmers, small businesses, and rural electric cooperatives to expand electrification and ...