Rural America

By the Numbers: A Look at Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture

James M. MacDonald and Robert A. Hoppe

Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger, Call For Antitrust Division to Reject Bid

Patrick Davis

A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill

Kim Baca

Monsanto’s Toxic Legacy: An Investigative Reporter Talks Glyphosate

Tracy Frisch

Smithsonian Symposium Explores Complicated History of Native American Slaveholders

Ryan P. Smith

What if Organic Standards Were Bioregional and Written by Real Organic Farmers?

John Ikerd

Hey Liberal, You’re Late, but Welcome to the Local-Control Party

Thomas Linzey

Why Progressives Need to Rethink the Rural-Urban Divide and Build a Coalition

Sarah van Gelder

With the USDA’s Blessing, CAFOs Are Driving Organic Dairy Farmers Out of Business

Jim Goodman

Standing Rock Felony Defendants Take Plea Deals, Still Face Years in Prison

Joseph Bullington

Trump on America’s Hungry: Let Them Eat “Harvest Boxes”

Matthew Gritter

A New Look at the Wartime History of Pesticides

Evaggelos Vallianatos

How Big Ag Is Borrowing Big Tobacco’s Playbook

John Ikerd

My County is Poor and Remote. Fracking Companies Think They Can Abuse It.

Alison Stine

The Community Rights Movement to the New Hampshire House: Let the People Decide What’s Best

John Collins

No More Fairy Tales: Why the United States Needs a Whole New Operating System

Thomas Linzey

Why Is the Biodiversity Rule for USDA Organic Certification Not Being Enforced?

Linley Dixon

Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Weighs in on the 2018 Farm Bill

Tom Vilsack