Dãnia Davy, an attorney and founder of Land and Liberation, a consultancy firm that specializes in Black farming ... government grant awards is that they often require the farmer to pay for ...

Though some of them have been rehired, the firing of 6,000 USDA employees in February in addition to the yo-yoing of off and on and off again grant administration has compounded farmers’ anxiety.

On a Monday morning in early February, Diane Choplin wheels a bale of hay to a paddock on Bel Avenir, her farm east of Ashland, Oregon. Snow drapes the distant hills and birds chatter from the ...

That grant was a 2023 award to the Agroecology Commons, a nonprofit that runs a beginning farmer training program and incubator for young farmers who are just starting out and helps them access ...