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Agricultural Business Remains Vital to Customers by Keeping Its Old-Fashioned Values

September 12, 2019 Timothy P. Hobbs, USDA Rural Development State Director for Maine

Andy and Valerie Cole are the husband and wife team who own Andy’s Agway in rural Dayton, Maine. It’s an impressive operation - in no small part because the Coles still run their agricultural business on the fundamental values their family began with over a century ago.

Rural

Improving Dental Health in Central Maine

May 01, 2019 Tim Hobbs, Maine State Director, Rural Development

A standing-room-only crowd packed into a recent open house celebrating the new facility for Waterville Community Dental in Kennebec County, Maine. The overflowing room was a perfect indication of the immense level of community support for the clinic’s important services and mission. Waterville...

Rural

USDA Forest Service Law Enforcement Investigators Support Drug Take Back Event

November 09, 2018 Michael Lofton, USDA

Prescription drug and opioid misuse has become a tragic epidemic with tremendous social and economic impacts, affecting communities and families of all sizes and from all socio-economic backgrounds.

Forestry Initiatives Rural

Reflecting on One Year of Innovation at Rural Development

October 12, 2018 Anne Hazlett, Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development

Last year, Secretary Perdue created the Rural Development Innovation Center, a team devoted to partnership development, regulatory reform, data analysis, and risk management. With a mission of coordinating resources and providing creative solutions for our rural customer, the Innovation Center is...

Rural Technology

e-Connectivity: A Foundation for Rural Prosperity

August 13, 2018 Anne Hazlett, Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development

In small towns from Maine to California, access to reliable, high-speed internet is a foundation for rural prosperity. From quality health care to advanced education and precision ag technology at the local farm equipment dealer, e-connectivity is a lifeline to the modern economy. And, yet we know...

Rural Technology

After at Least Five Decades of Growth, High-Income Countries are Now Investing Less in Public Agricultural R&D

June 28, 2018 Paul Heisey, Structure, Technology and Productivity Branch, Economic Research Service

Governments in high-income countries are spending less on agricultural research. A new report from USDA’s Economic Research Service reviews long-term trends in public agricultural research and development (R&D) investment by high-income countries and examines how these investments have contributed...

Research and Science Rural

USDA Disaster Program Helps Texas Farmer Recover from Hurricane Losses

March 05, 2018 Shawn McCowan, Texas FSA Public Affairs Specialist

Doug Harper, a fifth-generation farmer, moved to the Texas Gulf Coast area in 2012, looking forward to the potential for increasing corn, cotton, milo, and watermelon production there. Texas farmer Doug Harper comes from a long line of farmers. Growing up in the business, he knows there are always...

Disaster Farming Rural

A Source of Hope, Investing in Prosperity

October 26, 2017 Anne Hazlett, Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development

In the early 2000’s, shopping malls were often a pinnacle of growth and prosperity in rural America. In the recent years we’ve seen the decline of so many of these rural establishments. These shopping centers were once a sign of success in rural communities, but now sit, falling apart, as...

Rural

Establishment of the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity

June 14, 2017 USDA

On April 25th, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order promoting agriculture and rural prosperity in America. This Executive Order directs the establishment of the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity to "promote economic development and revitalization, job growth...

Rural

Secretary Perdue Affirms USDA’s Commitment to Indian Country

June 09, 2017 Linda Cronin, Acting Director of Tribal Relations, and Lawrence Shorty, Director of the 1994 Program

Within a month of his start, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue followed through on his promise to Indian Country to visit tribal leaders. Joining tribal representatives, Senators Rounds and Thune, and Congresswoman Noem at Oglala Lakota College’s Rapid City Extension Center, Secretary Perdue aimed...

Rural Farming Conservation

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