Rural America

Understanding the True Cost of American Food (Part I)

John Ikerd

Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped into Producing Too Much Milk

Jim Goodman

Blacks, Latinos and Indians Think About Climate Change in Ways that Most Other Americans Do Not

Joseph Bullington

Farming Pathogens: An Evolutionary Biologist on the Links Between Big Ag and Disease

Rural America In These Times

The USDA’s Organic Seal Should Not (and Must Not) Apply to Hydroponics

Linley Dixon

“I’m as Poor as Shit”: A Look at Downward Mobility in Lancaster, Ohio

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Our Chemical-Dependent, Profit-Driven, Industrial Ag Complex is Not Going Quietly

John Ikerd

News Flash: Wage Workers and Immigrants Didn’t Create Our “Corporate Kleptocracy”

Jim Hightower

How Chicken Farmers are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You

s.e.smith

Four Academics from Texas Give Us the Lowdown on Energy Markets

The Conversation

6 Reasons Local Food Systems Will Replace Our Industrial Model

John Ikerd

NSAC: New USDA Plan Abandons Rural Development Priorities in Favor of International Trade

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Wendell Berry Defends Rural America Against an Attack by New York Review of Books Writer

John Collins

Corporations Know Income Inequality Will Sink Us All. Here’s Why They Just Can’t Help It.

Wallace Hopp

10 Things Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Should Do Right Away

Reana Kovalcik

Building on Standing Rock, Native Americans Lead the Way at the People’s Climate March in D.C.

Stephanie Woodard

Hey Corporate Media, Quit Talking S#&* About the U.S. Postal Service

Jim Hightower

The View from a Wisconsin Farm: NAFTA Should be Repealed and Replaced

Jim Goodman