BLACKSBURG, Va. – Many southwest Virginia communities are set in rural locations. Leaders of local rural organizations and the United States Department of Agriculture met at the Inn at Virginia Tech ...
United States Department of Agriculture State Director for Rural Development Armando Valdez recently announced that USDA is awarding two grants to Colorado entities through the USDA Rural Energy for ...
States are rushing to inform some residents who rely on food stamps that they will soon be forced to meet work requirements ...
Jenna Batchelder and her husband Brad have been raising livestock for years. A grant from USDA Rural Development helped them branch out into a successful retail meat business. The USDA's Rural ...
HELENA, Mont. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development in Montana State Director Kathleen Williams announced an over $8.2 million grant to create economic and education opportunities in ...
Glencoe officials see acceptance into the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program as a “game changer” for the city. It achieved that status effective Oct. 1, at the start of Fiscal ...
Some lenders have a workaround for the Federal Housing Administration's suspension of reverse mortgage endorsements but fewer ...
The United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program assisted rural Missouri with a record $445 million during fiscal year 2001. This number is up 170 percent from last year, ...
SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — Saundra Glover, the state director of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development South Carolina announced on Dec. 12 over $587,000 in grant projects ...
On September 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a Lapse of Funding Plan prior to the anticipated government shutdown, which occurred on October 1, 2025. According to the USDA ...
The phrase “You gotta dance with the one who brought you to the party” is an early 20th century Southern dance etiquette saying. It is an idiom that means you should have gratitude to the people or ...