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 ...

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either ...

Sponsored by Ascendium Education Group, the FORWARD curriculum is designed to support Cooperative Extension Professionals (CEPs) working to address workforce development issues in rural communities.

Land reform and rural development are implemented within functional economic regions rather than reinforcing marginal ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — President Biden has appointed Perry Hickman as Virginia’s Rural Development State Director in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The role of the state director is to ...

Discussion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in rural America requires an understanding of how rural America is defined in federal, state, local, and societal terms ...

Wayne County Hospital is seen in Corydon in September 2019. A slightly more than $2 million grant to the hospital from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development will fund a nearly ...

The Department of Agriculture will not be shy about asking Congress for help on cybersecurity and IT, the agency’s undersecretary for rural development nominee told senators Wednesday. Smith co-signed ...

The disciplines and subfields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are critical to the global and national economy, and a quality STEM education not only prepares students for ...