Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

Without a budget compromise, major portions of the Farm Bill will expire on September 30, 2023. A small but important part of the bill is Rural Development, which helps communities with broadband, ...

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 ...

Family behind farm-land sale plans to keep fruit orchard in business while fields are developed.

USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—John J. Green, director of the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, has been named a Community ...

A developer wants to build a community with a wastewater treatment facility just west of Mansfield. Residents say it would be ...

The regional development strategies of Fremont County are set to be the subject of an upcoming segment on “Viewpoint hosted ...