This week’s Open Mic guest is Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D. While legislators have agreed on a new short-term spending plan to avoid a shutdown, final work on the nation’s purse strings for FY24 ...

A farmer uses a tractor to work on a cotton field on Feb. 26 in Seminole, Texas. A new report warns of broad impacts to frozen USDA grants. Julio Cortez/AP ...

In California, 50 of the state’s resource conservation districts and the association that represents them are waiting on the federal government to provide them with roughly $100 million ...

The Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts will ask for $376,000 on top of the $657,000 in the Department of Agriculture's proposed budget for water quality projects, Bobbie Frank said at ...