Rural America

Like Fracking, Factory Farms Are Profitable and Ecologically Insane

Wenonah Hauter

In Less Than One Generation, We’ve Lost More Than 10 Million Acres of the Best U.S. Farmland

Rural America In These Times

Before “Silent Spring” Debuted in 1962, Ag Pilots on the Great Plains Questioned Pesticide Safety

David Vail

A Revived Poor People’s Campaign Calls for a “Revolution of American Values”

Jessicah Pierre

An Informed Public Threatens Those in Power, But Our Public Is No Threat

CELDF

The Perils of High Fashion and the 1918 Migratory Bird Act Treaty

Angela Serratore

An Agricultural Movement for People-to-People Reparations Puts Itself on the Map

Emeline Posner

Two Conversations About “Sustainable Capitalism” and “The Art of Work”

Rural America In These Times

Farm Crisis: “Without Immediate Government Action, The Days Of The Small Dairy Farm Are Numbered”

Paul Deaton

From Punk Rock to Ultramarathons, Diverse Economies Are Taking Shape in Coal Country

Nico Gendron

The Three “Great Separations” that Unravelled Our Connection to Earth and Each Other

John Ikerd

The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp

Winona LaDuke

The House Farm Bill Ignores What Farmers Want (and Farm Groups Call BS)

Karen Perry Stillerman

In Washington State, the Supreme Court Will Test U.S. Commitment to Native American Treaties

Monte Mills

The 2018 Farm Bill’s Hidden Agenda to Push Millions off Food Stamps

Justin Perkins

In the American West, Arbitrary Poverty Designations Are Shortchanging the Rural Poor

Elizabeth Zach

Rural Emergency: Hospital Closures Are Putting Farmers Out of Business

Debbie Weingarten

Farm Workers Are Under Attack For Doing a Job that Other Americans Won’t

Ruben Navarrette