Rural America

New Trump Budget Proposes Big Cuts to Crop Insurance and Emergency Aid to Farmers

Christopher Walljasper

Insect Apocalypse: Count Finds Critically Low Number of Monarch Butterflies for Second Straight Year

Liz Kimbrough

America’s Grasslands Once Teemed with Animals. We Must Save What’s Left of Their Vanishing Habitat

Joel Berger and Jon Beckmann

Rural Farmers Face High Suicide Rates and Decreasing Access to Mental Health Care

Claire Hettinger and Pam Dempsey

Dicamba on Trial: Jury Sides with Farmer in Lawsuit Against Monsanto

Johnathan Hettinger

Does Lake Erie Deserve Legal Rights? A Federal Court Hears Arguments

Stacey Schmader

A Green New Deal Must Offer Farmers a Way to Transition to Regenerative Agriculture

Mackenzie Feldman and John Ikerd

Dicamba on Trial: Monsanto Decided to ‘Pull Back’ on Testing of Herbicide Prior to Roll Out

Johnathan Hettinger

For Democrats, the Road to Victory in 2020 Runs Through Rural America. This Report Offers a Road Map

Joseph Bullington

Dicamba on Trial: Peach Farmer’s Case Against Bayer, BASF Set to Begin Monday

Johnathan Hettinger

How a Little-Know Virginia Law Has Been Used to Uphold White Supremacy and Undermine Local Democracy

Simon Davis-Cohen

Our Food System Hurts Farmers, Consumers and the Earth. We Can Build a Movement to Change It

Anthony Flaccavento

The Local Foods Movement Has Made Half a Revolution. For the Other Half, We Need a Green New Deal

Anthony Flaccavento

Montana Senators Sponsor Bill to Return National Bison Range to Local Tribes

John S. Adams

Another Disease Outbreak Threatens U.S. Pigs, But Big Ag Would Rather Talk About Bacon Prices

Martha Rosenberg

Rising Rents, Loss of Farm Land, Destruction of Habitat and Other Costs of the Single-Family House

Robert Parker and Rebecca Lewis

The Deforestation of the Amazon Was Named the ‘Statistic of the Decade’

Liberty Vittert

The Little Shell Tribe of Montana Just Got Federal Recognition. Why Did It Take So Long?

Gabriel Furshong