If you're hoping to purchase a primary residence in a rural area and have been researching U.S. Department of Agriculture loans, you'll want to also become acquainted with USDA eligibility maps.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released its updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map uses weather data to map average annual extreme minimum ...

One of the major changes in this year’s edition of the hardiness map is the zone boundaries. The USDA states that the new zones are generally about one-quarter-zone warmer than reported in 2012 ...

which produced the hardiness zone map along with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. “I would not go out and buy a bunch of new plants.” Furthermore, the termperature ranges in the ...

This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM)—a datum used by gardeners and farmers to determine which plants are most ...

Arizona spans across zones 5 through 10. The new map, created by USDA's Agricultural Research Service and Oregon State University, is based on 30 years of data from 13,412 weather stations ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone map, the first update since 2012. This new map is a tool used to help gardeners and growers ...

In 2023, the USDA released a map based on 30-year averages of the lowest annual winter temperatures at the specific locations, split into 10-degree and 5-degree zones, and integrates data from ...

Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United States. Gardeners use this map to determine which plants and ...

Implemented in 1960, the Plant Hardiness Zone map has become an important tool for gardeners nationwide when selecting trees, shrubs and perennials that can survive the winter. The USDA ...

However, the USDA noted that while some locations were up to 5 degrees warmer, they did not move into a new half zone. Overall, the 2023 map is generally about one quarter-zone warmer than ...