The long-awaited Farmer Bridge Assistance rates are out! Rice and cotton will receive the highest per-acre rates, in keeping with earlier predictions. On the last day of 2025, USDA announced the ...

Bridge payments are authorized through the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act and will be administered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). The assistance is intended to support producers until ...

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on USDA’s new “One Farmer, One File” initiative, which ...

What This Means for You USDA launched a new national framework tying agriculture more directly to national security and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a sweeping display of urgency barely three days after the federal government reopened, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched a broad series of initiatives aimed at ...

By Karl Plume and P.J. Huffstutter ARLINGTON, Virginia/CHICAGO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - As the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Stage two of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) is moving into the initial stages of implementation, USDA officials announced during a media briefing on Monday. In what USDA Deputy ...

Hickory Hill Dairy in Edgefield, South Carolina, was able to start bottling its milk after receiving a Value-Added Producer Grant from USDA. (Hickory Hill photo) When the Cordi family lost nearly 70% ...

USDA announces programs to help Louisiana farmers after winter ice storm ...