A popular rural energy program meant to lower energy costs while helping farmers and small businesses is facing an uncertain future as Congress continues to debate over proposed spending cuts. The ...

Farmers and rural businesses that spent money to make their operations more energy efficient are waiting for reimbursement from the Agriculture Department due to a freeze on payments under the Rural ...

Solar panels at Lavalier’s Berry Patch. Up until a few years ago, when people visited Lavalier’s Berry Patch outside Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to pick strawberries, lingonberries, and apples, Stuart ...

For over two decades, Bruce Everly has been helping Indiana farmers apply for funding from the federal Rural Energy for America Program, which provides grants for solar, wind, energy-efficiency ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rolling back a grant and loan program supporters say was designed to increase rural economic development through renewable energy. However, ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media. Ongoing delays and disruptions to a federal rural energy program threaten to disproportionately impact Midwest farmers and Republican congressional ...