Across the country, farmers and rural residents describe struggling to obtain the basic services the Agriculture Department is meant to offer, including loans and grants, technical assistance and financing for housing and utilities.
Ryan Hanrahan
Ryan Hanrahan is the Farm Policy News editor and social media director for the farmdoc project. He has previously worked in local news, primarily as an agriculture journalist in the American West. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri (B.S. Science & Agricultural Journalism). He can be reached at rrh@illinois.edu.
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A new analysis released by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and Prospect Partners LLC finds that the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Farm Service Agency were among those hardest hit by USDA-wide staffing cuts in 2025.