This story was originally published by UGA Today. If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t give too much thought to where your food comes from. And you likely pay even less attention to the ...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Agriculture has a fraught history with discrimination and disenfranchisement. Farmers of color and young and beginning producers have long struggled to ...
After years of delays and temporary extensions, the long-awaited Farm Bill could finally move forward as lawmakers prepare to bring it to the House floor this week. For agricultural lenders ...
(TNS) — Universities have long launched startups in fields like software and biomedicine, but many are now taking increasingly prominent roles backing entrepreneurship around farming, food, and ...
Both farmers and consumers have the ability to prop up Minnesota's rural grocery stores. Kathy Draeger, director of the University of Minnesota Extension's Regional Sustainable Development ...
A Susquehanna County farm is among several in Pennsylvania receiving federal funding aimed at boosting small agricultural ...
In Georgia and across America, farmers and generational farms are at risk of shuttering, which impacts jobs, the food supply and the lifeblood or rural communities.
Dang, May 13 -- Investments by local governments in commercial agriculture and livestock farming are beginning to transform ...
Recent research suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running. If ...