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USDA announces funding for rural broadband expansion

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $478.6 million in funding for expansion and improvement of broadband service in rural areas. Read More...

Rural broadband access hearing set in Illinois

The House Agriculture subcommittee on Rural Development Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture will hold a hearing on the role of broadband access in rural economic development on Saturday, Sept. 24, in Springfield, Ill., House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., announced today.
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Adelstein: Youth need broadband to stay on the farm

Future farmers who attended President Barack Obama’s rural economic forum in Iowa last week said that they would be unwilling to stay in rural areas without high-speed Internet service, Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein said Monday. Read More...

Obama's USDA: Rural Utilities Service administrator: Broadband spending key to rural jobs

Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein runs an agency that is renowned for bringing electricity, telephone, water and sewer service to rural America, but that now has a new and challenging mission: to bring high-speed Internet service or broadband to those areas of rural America that have been left out of what has become a necessity for business and personal life. Read More...