USDA Rural Development home loans offer zero-down financing with competitive interest rates for eligible buyers in rural ...

USDA rural home loans (often called USDA Rural Development loans) remain fully available in 2025 for Maryland homebuyers. These mortgages offer 100% financing (no down payment) with competitive ...

In a continued effort to reshape housing policies, the Trump administration has rolled back a USDA waiver that allowed some non-citizens to access government-backed home loans. Effective immediately, ...

SINs beginning with a "9" are issued to temporary workers who are neither Canadian citizens nor permanent residents. If you hire a home care worker who is not yet a permanent resident or Canadian ...

(Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) Also included in this series of funding pauses and reinstatements was another USDA grant — called the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement program ...

WASHINGTON (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research projects that explore the highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry, as well as novel vaccines and ...

A USDA spokesperson confirmed funding that was allocated in October 2024 under the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program “is no longer available and those agreements will be terminated ...

Details of the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) are as follows: Additional information and resources are available to producers on USDA’s website here: https://fsa.usda.gov/ecap.

CENTRAL CITY, Iowa — Iowa’s small farms, once counting on a renewed federal program to keep their harvests ... both agriculture and food access. The USDA paid farmers fair prices for fruits ...

USDA had allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through an emergency assistance program. But several food bank leaders said many of those orders were canceled.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) has announced the launch of the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP), providing up to $10 billion in direct payments to ...

USDA recently eliminated the $500 million Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. Local farmers and food processors face potential business impacts. The Maryland Food Bank will cut the amount of ...