Whitesville Rural Volunteer Fire Department has received $3,300,000 through the USDA Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program to construct the new Cane Bay Fire Station in Berkeley County's Cane Bay community. Berkeley County, known for its rapid growth, houses over 10,000 residents in Cane Bay, along with multiple educational institutions, dining venues, shopping centers, and the Cane Bay YMCA.

Things were a lot different when Preston Mitchell started his business 18 years ago. That year he sold three thousand dollars of green chile. Also, he was only 15 years old when he started his business. The next year he sold thirty-five thousand dollars of Hatch chile. Since then, his business has continued to grow every year.

Today he has 30 to 40 employees working for him manufacturing various chile products, from chile rellenos to frozen green chile. During harvest time the number of employees nearly doubles.

For the people of Glasgow, Kentucky, a collaboration between T.J. Community Mission Foundation, the city, Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative, and USDA Rural Development helped to meet a critical need in the community. In 2020, the city was able to open its first hospice center and ultimately provide patients with compassionate and quality care.

Have you ever ridden by a landfill and watch flames coming out of pipes emerging from the debris and say to yourself-what a waste of energy/heat??? That’s called off gassing to relieve gas build up from garbage. Although, in 2013, Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. (RECC) and the City of Glasgow, KY wanted to capture that gas and convert it to electric energy. 

Columbia, S.C., February 9, 2024 - Last fall, the Rural Utilities Service Administrator Andrew Berke visited Bamberg, South Carolina, to announce a significant $24 million investment through the ReConnect Program for broadband infrastructure enhancements in Orangeburg and Bamberg counties. This initiative allocated $12 million in grant funding to each county.

In the southernmost tier of Iowa counties lies the quiet town of Moulton in Appanoose County. Far from an urban area, the town, population 607, is small, but offers several convenient services along Main Street. The local telecommunications company, Moulton city hall, and a market with a deli all stand ready for business.

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative proposes to construct the Anadarko Power Plant Combustion Turbine project.  It will construct two new natural gas-fired simple-cycle combustion turbines, which will replace three gas-fired boilers, at the existing Anadarko Power Plant.  The project will have approximately 28.5 acres of land disturbance (including a new 0.94-mile transmission line) and is located in Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma.

Under the Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) Program for a Renewable Energy Resource (RER) system, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), is considering a request for loan financing from SE Municipal Solar, LLC to construct and operate a 4,486-kilowatt (kW) direct current (DC) photo voltaic (PV) solar energy power system. The solar project is proposed to be constructed on 22 - acres owned by the City of Sidney located in Cheyenne County, Nebraska.

Balance is key to maintaining the health of humans and ecosystems but is an often-overlooked aspect of wastewater treatment. When the Mount Jackson, Va., plant went online in 2010, operators soon discovered that they had to make constant adjustments to maintain equilibrium.