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

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 ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. At the start of the year, Jon and Brittany Klimstra were nearly ready to ...

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 ...

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 ...