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An Update on Consultation with Tribes on SUTA from USDA

December 13, 2010 Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator, USDA Rural Development, Rural Utilities Service

Throughout this year, USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) consulted with Tribes on the Substantially Underserved Trust Areas (SUTA) provision of the 2008 Farm Bill. This provision directed RUS to develop a strategy to deliver infrastructure program funding tailored and more affordable to the...

Rural

FSA Provides Help to Kewa Pueblo Destroyed by New Mexico Storms

December 10, 2010 Tanya Brown, USDA Farm Service Agency

Farmers and ranchers from Kewa Pueblo affected by three major storms this past summer received much needed information on Farm Service Agency programs from the staff of New Mexico’s FSA. A workshop was held last month to provide information and answer questions from producers who lost their crops...

Rural

Hillside Farmers Co-op Awarded Grant to Develop Latino-Owned Poultry Production

December 10, 2010 Adam Czech, Public Information Coordinator, Minnesota Rural Development

The Hillside Farmers Co-op has some big goals for Latino farmers in southeastern Minnesota. With the help of a Small, Socially Disadvantaged Producer Grant (SSDPG) from USDA’s Rural Development, Hillside Farmers Co-op has taken another step toward reaching some of those goals.

Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

Promise of Broadband Expansion Coming True

December 08, 2010 Larry Dreiling, Senior Field Editor, High Plains Journal

In the days of the Great Depression, the National Recovery Act had as part of its focus the development of rural America. The primary initiatives of that era were development of electrical and telephone systems throughout the nation.

Initiatives Rural Technology

Texas FSA Fills Teaching Gap in School District

December 07, 2010 Cassie Bable, Texas Farm Service Agency

When Terri Trevino heard that the agriculture program in the Calvert Independent School District in Texas might be suspended due to the lack of an instructor, she immediately turned to the Farm Service Agency to fill the gap. “I knew that it was important to keep the agriculture program active...

Rural

USDA Provides Recovery Act Funds to Bring Broadband to the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation

December 02, 2010 Dianna Jennings, Arizona Special Projects Coordinator, USDA Rural Development

More than 7,000 rural residents in a remote area of Arizona will soon be connected to the world at large thanks to Recovery Act support from USDA Rural Development.

Rural Technology

USDA Rural Development State Director Tours Southwestern North Dakota to Connect with Community Leaders

December 02, 2010 Jane Grant, North Dakota USDA Public Information Specialist, and Josh Kramer, USDA Community Program Specialist

USDA Rural Development State Director Jasper Schneider, and staff, recently toured seven rural communities in southwestern North Dakota as part of USDA’s ongoing commitment to rural communities. Schneider participated in conversations with community leaders to identify ways Rural Development...

Rural

The Recovery Act Saves Jobs and Provides Support for North Carolina Facilities and Businesses

December 02, 2010 Delane Johnson, USDA North Carolina Public Information Coordinator

The Franklin Community Volunteer Fire Department, Incorporated in Toast, North Carolina had a problem. The department had outgrown its current facility and was “land locked” with no expansion room.

Rural

Dairy Barn Transformation is a Symbol of Its New Role

December 01, 2010 Karen Lynch, USDA Vermont Business and Community Programs Specialist

Construction has begun on Laraway’s new home. Looking at this hundred-year-old dairy barn jacked up in the air on the occasion of last month’s ground-breaking, it occurred to me that this labor of renovation and rejuvenation foreshadows what happens to the at-risk kids who come to Laraway Youth and...

Rural

Se Aproxima la Fecha Límite para Inscripción en el Programa 2009 de Desastre para los Cultivos de Arroz, Algodón, Semillas de Soya y Camote

November 30, 2010 Isabel Benemelis, FSA

La Agencia de Servicio Agrícola (“Farm Service Agency” o FSA, por sus siglas en inglés) del USDA le recuerda a los productores que tienen hasta el cierre de negocio del jueves, 9 de diciembre, para solicitar asistencia por pérdidas del año 2009 bajo el Programa de Asistencia para Cultivos (“Crop...

Spanish Rural