Early on a cool September morning, farmer Josh Payne tends to his flock in Concordia, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. As Payne opens the gate, about a thousand sheep round the corner and bound ...
This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer, a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. The Lower ...
On a recent fall day, as Wilburn Harris did the rounds on his cattle farm in the Missouri town of Drexel, he was met with brown grass, cracked soil and half-empty ponds. He was used to it. Last year’s ...