Policy on rural broadband was revised to support requiring companies that win broadband loans or grants to quickly complete ...

Any politically-induced stumble in any of those markets will carry deep and costly consequences across rural America. Farm & Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada. Source ...

As President Donald Trump begins his second term in the White House, America’s corn refining industry is eager to support his work toward a more prosperous rural America. The American corn ...

Amick Farms employs more than 2,000 people in Saluda County, including many Hispanic and Latino immigrants, and is one of the ...

Two years after President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the people’s department” because half of all Americans lived on farms at that time. Today, ...

Jenny Lester Moffitt, the Agriculture undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs in the Biden administration, has joined American Farmland Trust as senior fellow.Her work at AFT “will focus ...

Trump agriculture secretary nominee Brooke Rollins says bird flu will be 'one of the very top priorities' for USDA if she is ...

You can think of tradable income like the oxygen that circulates through the body of the local economy. Rural economies nearly uniformly have fewer and less diversified sources of tradable income than ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, Jan. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nomad Internet, a leader in providing high-speed internet solutions for rural America, has announced breakthrough results from a rigorous ...

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) has been named Chair of the Congressional subcommittee overseeing rural broadband development efforts. Prior to joining the U.S. House, Johnson was the ...

In front of the Senate's Agriculture Committee, Ag Secretary nominee Brooke Rollins talked about the mounting challenges ...

The United Farm Workers union said claims of 75% absences in Bakersfield were "not accurate" but that raids had caused ...