The Biden administration is spending more than $3 billion to cultivate more American farmers and forest landowners as partners to mitigate climate change — even while some Republicans on Capitol Hill try to stop the program entirely.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sees the Biden administration’s climate agenda as a boon for rural economies, he said during a recent visit to Portland’s World Forestry Center.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small Tuesday announced that USDA is expanding access to health care for more than 5 million people living in 39 states and Puerto Rico as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced recently that USDA is making investments that will create new and better markets for agricultural producers and food businesses in 19 states across rural America.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced a $188 million investment through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to conserve some of the most economically and ecologically significant forestlands across the nation.

The Biden-Harris Administration recently announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing more than $43 million to expand innovative uses of wood, including as a construction material in commercial buildings, as an energy source, and in manufacturing and processing input for wood products used in framing homes, making paper products and more.

Perdue Premium Meat Company, Inc., doing business as Alexander & Hornung, a Saint Clair Shores, Mich., establishment, is recalling approximately 3,204 pounds of fully cooked beef wiener products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced this week.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $2 million loan for South Central Development Company in Hillsboro through the Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded Purdue University three grants totaling more than $1.4 million for research on health issues in cattle and swine. The projects are among $13 million in investments that NIFA recently announced for its Animal Nutrition, Growth and Lactation Program.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday announced $714 million in grants and loans to connect thousands of rural residents, farmers and business owners in 19 states to reliable, affordable high-speed internet.

The Biden-Harris Administration Tuesday announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities that will help rural energy and utility providers bring affordable, reliable clean energy to their communities across the country. This represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is declaring April 2023 Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month (IPPDAM).

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is accepting applications for $1 billion in grants to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses invest in renewable energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that beginning this month, it will provide approximately $123 million in additional, automatic financial assistance for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk, as part of the $3.1 billion to help distressed farm loan borrowers that was provided through Section 22006 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

U.S. House Republicans tussled with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Democratic committee members over work requirements in federal nutrition programs as well as spending levels for those programs at a Tuesday hearing.