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 ...

The project will deploy solar power to support irrigation, storage, processing and residential energy needs within farming ...

A victim of Trump funding freezes, the bipartisan Rural Energy for America Program now faces a fraught appropriations process. Already caught up in the Trump administration’s halt on federal grants, a ...

Lavalier is one of thousands of rural small business owners and agricultural producers to benefit from the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which provides grants and loan guarantees for energy ...

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 ...

Budget 2026-27 signals a major redesign of India's rural landscape. From the ₹95,692 crore VB-G RAM G mission to the ...

Some USDA offices have resumed taking applications for grants, but the Rural Energy for America Program’s future still looks cloudy. The Trump administration’s freeze on energy grants to farmers and ...

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, ...

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 ...