Around 85,000 acres across the state, including pockets of the Cherokee National Forest, are currently protected under the ...

The USDA is rolling back a 2001 rule that protected state land in the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee and the Land ...

The Tennessee Valley counties named as primary areas for natural disaster include: The other Alabama counties listed as primary areas include Autauga, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has come out with the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This is the first time the map has been updated since 2012 and now gets data from over 13,000 weather st… ...

During that time, the USDA said 1.7 million baits would be distributed in areas of East Tennessee, western North Carolina, southwest Virginia and north Georgia. More than 400,000 baits will be ...

Farmers are applying for part of a $2.2 billion program that will provide assistance to those who faced discrimination in USDA farm lending programs.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will invest more than $176 million in loans and grants rural communities across Tennessee, the department announced Tuesday.

Now, the programs will shut down entirely, just three months after the USDA announced a $1.13 billion investment in the upcoming fiscal year. Tennessee planned to opt-in again to draw down those ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently granted $5 million to support the development of the hemp industry in Tennessee.