Rural counties where farming makes up a major part of the local economy were more likely than the rest of rural America to lose population over the past decade, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of ...
This story was originally published by UGA Today. If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t give too much thought to where your food comes from. And you likely pay even less attention to the ...
Is rural America really representative of the typical stereotypes? Popular culture gets a lot wrong about the rural USA. Here ...
Representatives Bill Huizenga and Kristen McDonald Rivet have introduced the FARM Home Loans Act of 2025, which would expand ...
With nearly 25% of U.S. net farm income estimated to come from federal subsidies in fiscal year 2025, the overall income ...
Founded in 1960 in Mattoon, Illinois, Rural King is a chain of farm supply stores. The company has stores in 13 states across the Midwest and South. Insider recently visited one of those stores in ...
MAPLEWOOD, Minn.-Doug Peterson, the recently retired president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, is one of the last of his kind: a prairie populist and rural Renaissance man. He has been a farmer, ...
Both farmers and consumers have the ability to prop up Minnesota's rural grocery stores. Kathy Draeger, director of the University of Minnesota Extension's Regional Sustainable Development ...
KANDIYOHI — “Just a regular old farm,” is how Gene Gatewood describes his family-owned dairy, livestock and little-bit-of-everything farm south of Kandiyohi. “We stay busy,” said Gatewood, with an ...
Recent research suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running. If ...