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The highest unemployment rates in the country are on the Indian Reservations of the Missouri River Valley where unemployment averages 80%.

USDA is providing more than a quarter billion dollars in loans for rural electric infrastructure improvements.

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - USDA is moving decisively but cautiously to fulfill President Trump’s challenging directive to eliminate two regulations for every new one it issues.

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field,” President Dwight Eisenhower said in 1956.

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2017 – A spike in cotton prices has gotten the attention of growers and policymakers, but analysts say it’s likely temporary and may have little impact on producers’ pocketbooks or the cost of their farm bill proposal.

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 – Laura Batcha, CEO of the Organic Trade Association, says that USDA should follow public sentiment on a proposal that would alter animal welfare requirements in organic production.

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - All signals point to a full-speed-ahead renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but the U.S. meat sector is hopeful that the three governments involved will be amenable to the ag sector’s desire, for the most part, to be left alone

The Trump Administration should be commended for initiating “The Proposed 2017 Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture to establish an Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs," but understand how Rural Development is needed to make it work for taxpayers.