The principles of sustainable agriculture were born in rural communities. How can those places now profit from the expanding interest in healthy locally-grown food?

Timothy Collins, of two minds, detects the first signs of fall in rural Illinois: the myths of audible corn and the realities of government-led soil conservation.

Food has a way of bringing people together. They came together again last weekend at Farm Aid in Kansas City.

The main questions about grain today are establishing a fair price and handling leftovers. Do we keep exporting them or plow them back into the soil?