Since the nineties, the rural-urban gap has had a growing role in American elections. These rural areas have shifted towards conservative values, while urban areas have become more democratic. Rural ...

But GOP members of the House Agriculture Committee are pushing for budget cuts to the Farm Bill, the legislation that authorizes food stamps and a variety of other nutrition and agriculture programs. ...

BATTLE LAKE, Minn. — The October harvested corn was dry enough to forgo using heat from the grain dryer at Dean Jorud’s farm in Otter Tail County this harvest season. Most years there’s a need to take ...

In recent decades, the agricultural landscape has undergone a significant transformation as advances in digital technology and modern management practices are reshaping not only how farms are run but ...

Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs.

In the process, China uses about 7 percent of the world's arable land to feed about one-fifth of the global population, a ...

Alternative energy sources such as wind, geothermal, hydro and solar have grown increasingly popular as ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen the grid by decentralizing power ...

CHESAPEAKE — Concerned by the growth of subdivisions in rural parts of the city with limited infrastructure, Chesapeake leaders have taken a series of actions to close a “loophole” that for decades ...