In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

All too often, rural America is neglected by candidates at the top of the ticket. And when those candidates do the token farm stop, they often hit on a handful of tired messages about feeding the ...

“Rural people know inherently what it means to be a good neighbor,” Lynlee Thorne says over the phone from her farm in Rockingham County, Virginia. It is late August, the week following the Democratic ...

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