The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional ...

None of these facts nor any of their impacts on American farmers and ranchers are "expected to deter the Trump administration as it reshapes," said USDA in the report.

President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January and quickly followed through on many of his campaign promises – an ...

The USDA home loan application process can take a bit longer than usual. Here are the steps it takes, from beginning to end.

A group of House Republicans has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Broadband ReConnect Program, which doled out more than $600 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2016 – Congress’ decision to take catfish inspection away from the FDA and give it to USDA was sharply criticized as a waste of money and resources at a House Energy and Commerce ...

FIRST ON FOX: A House Republican pressed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the agencies’ "apparent lack of an effective strategy" to combat the ongoing ...

WASHINGTON -- White House officials repeatedly apologized to fired Georgia USDA official Shirley Sherrod and the USDA offered her a new job, but the former state director of rural development is still ...

WASHINGTON – An Agriculture Department employee and two staff members on the House Agriculture Committee were injured Thursday in a car accident south of El Campo, Texas. A statement from the ...

House Republicans and Democrats alike hit the USDA hard in a hearing Thursday for some of the choices the department’s making as it implements the 2014 farm bill, including a delay on what they say is ...

Nearly all of the foreclosures filed by the USDA in recent months have targeted Maine’s poorest rural residents. (Photo illustration by Peter DiCampo/ProPublica. Source photos: Bangor Daily News.