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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Jerry Laughlin, 46, who took over a fifth-generation farm near Imogene, Iowa, in 1999 and hopes to move more into farming crops for food rather than industrial use, is grateful for his Catholic faith ...
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 ...
In the process, China uses about 7 percent of the world's arable land to feed about one-fifth of the global population, a ...
Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs.
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 ...