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Financial impacts of federal action stir anxiety for Illinois farmers
Farmers are biting their nails as they await a new Farm Bill — a piece of federal legislation that Congress passes every five ...
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US Department of Agriculture Dismantles Scholarship That Benefited HBCU Students
A scholarship that provided assistance to HBCU students will no longer exist. In 1992, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
CBC calls Trump suspension of USDA 1890 Scholars program ‘outrageous’
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on President Trump to reinstate an education program designed to support ...
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USDA suspends scholarship for students attending TSU and other land grant HBCUs
The US Department of Agriculture’s website shows they’ve suspended a scholarship program for students who enroll at Tennessee ...
U.S. Department of Agriculture suspends scholarship program at NC A&T State University, 18 other historically Black colleges, website shows
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended a scholarship program that serves students from rural or underserved ...
USDA lifts Trump freeze on some funding owed to farmers, vast majority remains on hold
A sliver of the money the USDA owes farmers is released after a Trump administration freeze. But much more remains in limbo, ...
After 10,000 years, let’s bury the plow
Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.
Oregon wheat farmers brace for boomerang effects of Trump’s international aid program freeze
But the agency’s fate is in limbo following President Donald Trump’s move last month to pause all foreign aid and gut the ...