RHS loans allow low-to-moderate-income borrowers to purchase rural properties with zero money down and lower mortgage ...

After surviving teen homelessness and domestic violence in West Virginia, 23-year-old Ireland Daugherty was finally feeling stable: She had her own apartment, a job and was studying for a four-year ...

Federally funded programs provided both women with a social safety net and employment in one of the nation’s poorest states, ...

Residents in several southern states were found to spend the highest percentage of their income on groceries, according to a new analysis by WalletHub.

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s spending plan also invests in rural communities by promoting agriculture advancements and boosting outdoor recreation.

A dead-end dirt road cutting through rural Wisconsin leads to a pasture dotted with shaggy-coated Highland cattle, fluffy ...

Most countries have their tourist locations – beaches, resorts, monuments and natural vistas. But when Paul Wright visited Croatia this past month, he took in schools, an embassy, farmland, ...

The county Board of Supervisors pushed the project application forward on Tuesday, but it will still go through a long review ...

After years of increased production costs, smaller margins and higher competition from abroad, rural communities are hoping ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the ... and many of them rent the land they farm. Programs such as USDA’s farm loan programs and the Beginning Farmer and ...

The directive from USDA’s office of communications, whose authenticity was validated by three people, could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture ...

The plaintiffs filed their challenge against the department in September. They claimed that the USDA arbitrarily and capriciously changed technical merit requirements after they filed over 60 ...