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Fields, crops and farm animals are part of the agriculture-industry landscape, but an increasingly small one. The number of farm and ranch managers...
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Farmers know every year they’re going to encounter surprises from things out of their control, like drought or pests. This year, great growing...
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The high-desert town of Palisade, Colorado, is synonymous with fresh, locally grown peaches. Years ago, thousands of migrant workers would flock here...
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As life expectancy increases, farmers are staying in the business, but there’s still a need to plan for what happens when they die. At the same time,...
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Josh Davis likes to name his pigs after flowers: Petunia, Iris, Violet and Daisy. That’s not the only thing that sets him apart as a hog farmer. For the...
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Angie Gomez has seen and heard plenty of stories about how hard it is for unauthorized immigrants and migrant farmworkers in rural areas to find lawyers...
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Pesticides are all over, from backyard gardens to cornfields. While their use doesn’t appear to be slowing, concern over drift and the resulting effects…
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Two counties in southwestern Illinois grow the majority of the nation’s — and possibly the world’s — horseradish. The city of Collinsville, population…
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Dairy farmer Gary Rock sat in his milking parlor, in LaRue County, Kentucky, overlooking what is left of his 95-cow operation.“Three hundred years of…
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It’s a challenge for people with severe mental illnesses to hold down a job or get the medical help they need. And that extends to when they try to…
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U.S. consumers’ hunger for fresh, local and organic foods has fed a marketplace that’s so big, little guys are — once again — having to evolve and…
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Western Illinois might be close to the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, but it’s the driest part of the state this year.“We really haven’t really had any…