The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional ...
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at a roundtable with farmers, state secretaries and directors of agriculture, governors and farmers at the USDA Whitten Building.(Lydia Johnson photo) Next week is ...
The new USDA directive comes as the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Agriculture an administrative stay to ...
In an ongoing effort to soften the infant formula crisis, the White House shared an announcement on Monday from the USDA offering a nationwide waiver for infant formula. Stacy Dean, USDA’s deputy ...
The appropriations bill passed Wednesday contains several provisions that could impact the agency’s plans to move staff and ...
More than two dozen Democratic state leaders are suing the Department of Agriculture after the Trump administration said it ...
Nearly all of the foreclosures filed by the USDA in recent months have targeted Maine’s poorest rural residents. (Photo illustration by Peter DiCampo/ProPublica. Source photos: Bangor Daily News.
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