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The Rural Energy for America Program has closed two of its four application windows this year. The grants can help farmers with things like installing solar or making energy efficiency upgrades.

Federal officials say the memo from early April is aimed at reducing wildfire risk and ensuring a “reliable and consistent supply of timber.”

Grant awardees will be offered the chance to “voluntarily revise” their projects to align them with Trump Administration policies. But if they choose not to, processing will still continue.

Concord resident Becca Sheets says the job cuts were a surprise to even her supervisors. "No one knew anything. A lot of people had questions. No one had any answers.”

The USDA cautions against using the plant hardiness zones, which are based on 30-year averages, as indicators for climate change. But gardeners say the maps reflect one of the ways they’re experiencing a warmer world.

Aid will help with recovery, repair and conservation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund are partnering to get grants out to meat processors

The district will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand menu offerings.

What a hornet wasp might use to sting a human, these wasps use to lay their eggs inside their host: the emerald ash borer.

No geese will be euthanized this summer, but officials are keeping all options on the table as birds are creating public health concerns