Items Tagged with 'Reconnect'

The Senate confirms Former Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., to serve as the Agriculture Department’s undersecretary for rural development.

The Senate's proposed fiscal 2022 funding bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration would provide $7 billion in disaster assistance to cover producers' losses in 2020 and 2021.

House appropriators are proposing to steer new Agriculture Department funding into tackling climate change and expanding rural broadband service under a fiscal 2022 spending bill released Thursday.

President Joe Biden released a fiscal 2022 budget outline Friday that includes a $3.8 billion increase for the Agriculture Department that is heavily directed toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and making farms and forests more resilient to climate change.

The arena of rural broadband interests – providers, companies, co-ops, and government agencies – all hit the ground running when COVID-19 invaded.

Advocates say the Department of Agriculture's ReConnect program is working when it comes to building out high-speed internet technology into rural America but say higher speeds and more government funding is needed in the years ahead.

A third of all restaurants could close forever * Bracing for the farm impact * Enviros take aim at Trump’s new WOTUS

Gov. Newsom has launched a Broadband for All initiative and the policy recommendations are already coming it.

Rural businesses and companies who have applied for funding to build out high-speed internet through USDA’s ReConnect pilot program should know by December if they will be receiving funding.

Wine impacts air * Wine inspires cannabis market * Bolstering port inspections