Category: Ag and Trade

Photo by Luke Runyon/Harvest Public Media

Letter from Langdon: Water from Stones

A farmer drives one of the farm's smaller combines from one field to another during the feed corn harvest at the John N. Mills & Sons farm in Hanover and King William Counties in Virginia. Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA

Letter from Langdon: Is USDA Reporting the Price, Or Setting It?

The author and his son, Brandon, in stand in front of their Case MX270 in the top-left photo.

Letter from Langdon: The Farmall Family Album

A rally against Amendment 1, the "right to farm" amendment, held by the group Missouri’s Food for America. Photo by The Missouri Times.

Letter from Langdon: Fixing to Get Agri-Ready

Some dairy farms have begun recruiting immigrant labor, due to quick expansion of their business and an underdeveloped local labor force.

Immigrant Dairy Workers Changing Rural Kansas

Many ranchers in Missouri now feel trapped by the check off program they voluntarily introduced years ago.

Letter from Langdon: Does N.D. Right-to-Farm Vote Signal Change?

A pharmacy technician at L&S Pharmacy in Charleston, Missouri, holds a bottle of oxycodone. Photo by Bram Sable-Smith/Side Effects Public Media/KBIA

Letter from Langdon: A Prescription for Disaster

GMO labeling comes to a head. Photo by Jason Redmond/Reuters

Policy Pennings: GMO Issues Go Beyond Labeling

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Puerto Ricans Are Most Food-Insecure Group among U.S. Hispanics

In the mid-1950s, Oswald's father, Ralph, dug a ditch to route ground water to irrigate his corn field. It's not the first time an American took an innovative approach to raising corn. (Photo provided by Richard Oswald)

Letter from Langdon: Thanks, Dad

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A detail of a map created by Chris Dellamea, whose website, www.coalcampusa.com, contains information on hundreds of mining towns that dotted Appalachia. (Copyright, Chris Dellamea, 2013)
Speak Your Piece: The Lies We Want to Believe
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Letter from Langdon: Water from Stones
Ira High Elk was among those outside the North Dakota State Capitol celebrating the federal government’s decision to suspend the Dakota Access pipeline project near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. All photos by Alyssa Schukar.
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The graph breaks out growth and decline in jobs using the Economic Research Service's nine-catetory system, with 1 being the most urban and 9 being the most rural. The biggest counties (blue counties are in a metro with 1 million or more residents; red, in metros with 250,000 or more) had more jobs in 2015 than they did in 2008. Every other county type (from smaller metro areas down to the most rural) still haven’t caught up with pre-recession employment. Generally, the more rural a county, the poorer its job performance has been. (Daily Yonder using Bureau of Labor Statistics data)
Job Growth Focused on Largest Cities
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In the Black: Three-and-a-half Fingers
Ninety-nine percent of pay-TV subscribers rent their conversion box from their TV provider, according to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Consumers' inability to choose their own box results in higher prices, Wheeler said.
Speak Your Piece: Unlocking ‘the Box’ Will Help Rural America
The study found a correlation between the use of broadband and many measures of civic engagement in rural (nonmetropolitan) U.S. counties. In these charts, the instance of voting and contacting a public official in rural counties went up as rates of broadband "adoption," or use, increased. (Data Source for all graphs: 2011 Current Population Survey and Federal Communications Commission Industry Analysis and Technology Division)
Use of Broadband Linked to Greater Levels of Civic Engagement
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Letter from Langdon: Consider the Corporations
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