The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Heartland Regional Food Business Center are accepting grant applications from small- to mid-sized farmers and food businesses in the central U.S. The first round ...

Photo by Sam Gellman Photography/Getty Images. Although farm subsidies were originally intended to help family farms, they have become a tool for making the largest and wealthiest farms larger and ...

Apr. 4—Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant program that allowed ...

MT. PLEASANT, Iowa (KWQC) - Small farmers often juggle full-time jobs and farm work just to keep the lights on. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes into bringing fresh produce to your ...

Johnson County recently awarded grants to 17 local food businesses, farms, and nonprofits to help improve food production, processing, and distribution in the community. Even a few years after the ...

Following up a spring report on Helene impact, ASAP's more recent research shows the long and difficult process of applying ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) — Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm, the Iowa Capital Dispatch ...