Chase Franklin had everything set for his cross-country move from North Dakota to Kansas for a new job—until the government shut down.

USDA is making $67 million available to help landowners struggling with heirs’ property resolve ownership and succession issues. The money for the competitive loans will go to “intermediary lenders” ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving to implement a lending program designed to help farm property heirs resolve ownership and succession issues and hold onto their land. The department ...

USDA loans, a 0% down option for low and moderate-income buyers in rural and suburban areas, are on pause due to the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering farm ownership microloans, creating a new financing avenue for farmers to buy and improve property. These microloans are especially helpful to beginning ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KLFY) — While the federal moratorium on evictions expires July 31, homeonwners of properties financed or guaranteed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will get an ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Program is an important source of rental housing in many rural communities. Since the program’s inception in 1963, ...

Andy Henry and his brother Christopher own a 21-acre farm in Cranbury, New Jersey — land their maternal great-grandfather ...

The scientists pulled out a little more than a year ago. They abandoned the U.S. Department of Agriculture's offices and barns on the flanks of Chinsegut Hill, north of Brooksville. They took their ...

BELLE GLADE, Fla. — After days spent harvesting beans, bagging sugar and driving tractors in the blistering heat, the farmworkers return to decaying homes. The residents of the Okeechobee Center in ...

Producers, Including Beginning and Underserved Farmers, Have a New Option to Gain Access to Land WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2016 — Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden today announced that the U.S.