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Gov. Glenn Youngkin announces launch of VA & USDA block grant program

VDACS will manage the Virginia Farm Recovery Block Grant Program that’ll provide payment to eligible recipients ...
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USDA reopens 1890 Scholars Program for FAMU, other land-grant HBCUs after suspension

After just days of suspending the 1890 Scholars Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reopened it for prospective agriculture students interested in attending Florida A&M University and the ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

USDA’s end of diversity efforts in farm programs will mean ‘less food for the community’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled last week that it already “sufficiently addressed” past discrimination and that continuing to practice “race- and sex-based remedies” are no longer necessary ...
Agri-Pulse

USDA to pause rural energy grant awards

Workers install solar panels at Littlestown Veterinary Hospital in Littlestown, Pa., in 2010. The project was funded in part through the Rural Energy for America Program. (USDA photo by Julie Holland) ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

USDA ended its local food programs. A look at how farmers, schools and food banks are coping

Kitchen staff at the Clear Lake Middle School in northern Iowa slice local apples as one of the fruit options for lunch. The school district received federal funds through the USDA's Local Food for ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

Frederick County agriculture grant program awarded

Frederick County’s Agriculture Innovation Grant Program has been recognized with the Rural Economic Development Award by the Rural Maryland Council, county officials announced. This recognition ...
KCCI Des Moines

USDA cuts programs bringing local food into schools, food banks

Iowa farmers and institutions lost an estimated $11.3 million in federal funding to support the purchase of locally raised foods, following the recent termination of two U.S. Department of Agriculture ...