AscendRural, which funds and facilitates rural pilots for tech startups, today announced a new collaborative partnership with research and data source the Center for Rural Policy & Development (CRPD), ...

The livability of rural America will be partly driven by how well it connects to urban centers, but also, but creating local ...

Iowa State University, alongside cooperatives and businesses throughout Iowa, have received federal funding to support ...

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, ...

USDA Rural Development announced the agency is investing $11.5 million in 13 projects, including one in Osage.

According to a 2025 article published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the share of residents at prime working ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The overall objective of the present study is to contribute to the knowledge-base that is urgently required for the implementation of sustainable rural development activities in Haiti. The study ...