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Byline: Jacqui Fatka The number of non-certified organic farms actively transitioning to organic production dropped by nearly 71% since 2008, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Through the [...]

Byline: Chris Torres The recently passed Pennsylvania state budget includes a $220 million Clean Streams Fund, described as a first-of-its-kind dedicated funding stream for Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts. But how [...]

Gov. Tony Evers announced an additional $50 million in direct payments to support Wisconsin's agricultural producers through a new round of the Wisconsin Farm Support Program. In 2020, Evers distributed [...]

Byline: Jacqui Fatka This year farmers saw high levels of net farm income, second only to the record set in 2013. However, when $446 billion of the $120 billion coming [...]

Applications for the next round of USDA Rural Development grants are due March 31, 2021, according to the Minnesota Rural Development office. Investments can used for renewable energy systems such [...]

Byline: Jacqui Fatka In the first month of the application period, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA) approved $7.6 billion in payments to producers in the second [...]

Byline: Rod Swoboda Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced on Aug. 25 that she has allocated approximately $100 million in relief funds from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security [...]

An additional $1 billion will be invested in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. The additional funding allows the program to continue support to farmers, distributors, and American families [...]

While the focus of USDA assistance has centered on the recently announced Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, many producers may have overlooked disaster program enrollment for weather-related losses in 2018 and [...]

USDA's Farm Service Agency announced a new pilot program that enables farmers in the Prairie Pothole region of the U.S. to receive payments for planting cover crops on their land [...]

Drought can take any farm or ranch down, and recent effects of drought have hit farms and ranches in some parts of Western states hard. But help is available with [...]

Byline: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a new microloan program from the USDA designed to help small and family operations, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers [...]

Byline: The office of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran With the USDA issuing a drought disaster designation for north Mississippi, Sen. Thad Cochran has said the expanding drought situation across the [...]

The sign-up period for the 2009 crop year Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) program has opened. Farmers and ranchers interested in signing up must do so before July 29, 2011. [...]

The Obama administration's fiscal 2010 budget proposal will include funds to provide a final settlement for the lawsuit that alleged discrimination against minority farmers in USDA's farm programs. 'I'm pleased [...]

Farmers have begun receiving $1.15 billion in direct payments for the 2008 crop year, USDA officials announced. The money represents the advance payments growers could request when they signed up [...]

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says the supplemental spending bill passed by Congress late last week includes $479 million for emergency conservation efforts for areas affected by the Midwest floods. Harkin, [...]

Byline: Forrest LawsFarm Press Editorial Staff USDA has begun making $1.8 billion in Conservation Reserve Program rental payments to farmers who have voluntarily enrolled land in the nation's largest conservation [...]

Farmers interested in non-typical funding to help their bottom lines should check out Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education (SARE) producer grants, says Henry English, director of the Small Farm Program [...]

Byline: Bonnie CoblentzMSU Ag Communications Chris Bell of Newton County is the latest Mississippian with a disability to benefit from a program designed to allow agricultural lifestyles despite a life-altering [...]

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns is reminding Conservation Reserve Program participants with contracts expiring between 2008 and 2010 they have until Friday, June 30, to apply for re-enrollment or extension. 'I [...]

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced USDA will provide nearly $440 million in funding for 4,404 Conservation Security Program contracts across the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam. 'This year [...]

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced farmers may begin sign-up May 17 for four crop and livestock assistance programs designed to help producers unfortunate enough to be in the paths of [...]

Saxby Chambliss says farmers should get a 'deficit reduction' credit for the $13 billion the government was expected to spend on farm programs in the first three years of the [...]

USDA announced that corn farmers will receive a final 2004-crop counter-cyclical payment of 29 cents per bushel and grain sorghum producers a CCP payment of 27 cents per bushel on [...]

Natural Resources Conservation Service officials are advising farmers that if they don't sign up for the Conservation Security Program during the current enrollment period it may be a while before [...]