Vermont Business Magazine The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released updated federal guidance on December 9 and 10, 2025, clarifying that specific non-citizen categories, including some Lawful ...

South Carolina is one of 18 states that have sought to remove sugary drinks and candy from a list of SNAP-eligible foods ...

Michigan AG Nessel leads a 22-state lawsuit against the USDA over SNAP eligibility guidance that may wrongly exclude certain legal immigrants from food assistance.

A coalition of 21 attorneys general sued the US Department of Agriculture on Wednesday in an effort to block recent guidance from the agency that declared some immigrants, including refugees and those ...

The lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration’s new guidelines illegally exclude some eligible noncitizens, including ...

A senior Agriculture Department official rejected House Democrats’ demands that USDA pull back a proposal to reduce income eligibility limits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in many ...

The Agriculture Department is ditching a change in commodity program subsidy eligibility rules that would have unintentionally made it harder for some members of family farming operations to qualify ...

USDA’s Supplemental Disaster Relief Program expands support for uninsured crops, nurseries, perennial plants, stored ...

USDA mortgages are aimed at borrowers buying in eligible rural areas. These loans come with lenient rules around credit scores and down payment requirements. USDA loans come with income limits that ...

USDA has made more commodities eligible for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and has extended the deadline for all producers to apply for CFAP to September 11, 2020. Following the collection of ...