Project 2025’s plans for the Department of Agriculture call for eliminating many conservation programs that have broad support among farmers.

“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 ...

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 ...

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