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, ...

As health-care workforce shortages deepen nationwide, many of the most practical, scalable solutions are emerging not from large urban systems, but from rural communities willing to rethink how talent ...

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 ...

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

The Daily Yonder reports fears of farmland loss hinder renewable energy growth in rural areas, despite potential benefits for ...

Hillsborough County commissioners unanimously voted 7-0 on Thursday night to advance a controversial development plan in ...

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.

In this April 5, 2010 photo, Lisa Kartek stands near an open field and looks toward the home she purchased in Annandale, Minnesota, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)— Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity’s (LEO) Office of Rural Prosperity have announced the recipients of $1.3M in Rural Readiness ...

A bill creating an independent stewardship district in South Hillsborough County is set to go to the House Floor.