The Agriculture Department and congressional Democrats are trading barbs over USDA’s administration of a block grant program designed to provide disaster relief to small- and medium-sized farmers. A ...

A provision in the House aims to standardize specialty crop disaster aid by directing USDA to base payments on producers’ prior-year sales. Some non-full-time farmers could see payments capped at $155 ...

California farm organizations have joined with sister organizations around the country in calling on Congress to restore staffing levels at agencies within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At ...

Many farmers in portions of the upper Midwest have been dealing with the impacts of severe storms and heavy rains during the month of June. A widespread area of west central and northern Minnesota, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday approved the state's request for a disaster declaration after a late-April freeze devastated some orchards and vineyards in the state.

The homesteading couple behind Gold Shaw Farm documents how a series of unexpected challenges led to a major disaster on ...

Largely driven by a surge in disaster and economic government assistance, USDA’s latest farm income forecast projects a significant but misleading rebound in net farm income for 2025, rising to $180.1 ...

The driest spring on record has taken a striking toll on the North Coast's pastures and hayfields, with more than $22 million in losses from drought and freeze reported. Requests for disaster aid from ...

On Dec. 20, both the U.S. House and Senate passed a continuing resolution, which provided needed funding to avoid a federal government shutdown. The legislation that was passed and signed into law ...

A bill to provide disaster relief to hundreds of thousands of farm workers was introduced by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla. If signed into law, the Disaster Relief for Farm Workers Act will provide ...