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Trump’s 2027 budget proposes deep cuts across federal agencies, restores some rural-focused USDA housing funds

President Trump’s fiscal 2027 federal budget outline, released on April 3, 2026, proposes to fund most of the U.S. Department ...
Agri-Pulse

USDA rural vet plan receives plaudits, suggestions

An APHIS Veterinarian inspecting a goat on a farm in Maryland. (USDA photo) Groups pushing for more help from the federal government to address the country’s shortage of rural veterinarians are ...
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A successful USDA program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America is getting phased out

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Y. An, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) The high cost of ...

Utah Broadband Awarded $23 Million USDA ReConnect Grant and Loan to Expand High-Speed Fiber Across Rural Northern Utah

Strategic Investment to Deploy 315 Miles of New Fiber, Connecting 3,000+ Homes and Businesses in Cache, Summit, Utah, ...
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Briefs: Abortion protections stand; Bison grazing permits revoked; Water operator program extended;

A judge dismisses a challenge to the 2024 initiative that enshrined abortion access in Montana’s Constitution; The BLM ...
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USDA ends programs for solar, wind projects on farms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture will no longer support solar and wind projects on productive farmland, said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a post on X on Monday. The ...
Agri-Pulse

Groups weigh challenges, opportunities for USDA statistical programs

National Agricultural Statistics Service Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig explains the March Agricultural Survey at an event on March 31, 2011. (USDA photo) Members of the public submitted 238 comments ...
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The USDA Wouldn’t Let Her Give Up Her House When She Couldn’t Pay Her Mortgage. Instead, It Crushed Her With Debt

The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional ...
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What the government shutdown means for USDA agencies

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) — Nearly half of U.S. Department of Agriculture employees will be furloughed during the federal government shutdown, though key programs that support nutrition ...