Producers who need to talk with someone at their county office now will have to make an appointment, as COVID-19 cases continue to increase nationwide.

The White House is asking Congress for $45.8 billion to cover the rising cost to the Agriculture Department and other departments and agencies of responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

USDA's Rural Development office is getting a new leader with the appointment of Bette Brand to replace DJ LaVoy, who is retiring.

House and Senate negotiators will have to sort through some sharply different priorities and spending targets for USDA and other departments and agencies important to agriculture.

Food processors under blackouts * ‘Lot of work’ still on China deal

Pete Buttigieg, making a bid for rural voters in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, proposed Tuesday to repopulate struggling communities by offering special visas to immigrants who agree to move to those towns.