Quick hits: Impossible Burger demand skyrockets; dangerous fungal disease hitting some California farmers

Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at heather.chapman@uky.edu.
Sometimes deadly communicable disease, fueled by climate change, is hitting farmworkers hard in California's Central Valley, Twilight Greenaway reports for Civil Eats.

The plant-based Impossible Burger is so popular that the manufacturer is having a hard time meeting restaurants' demand, Neil Vigdor reports for The New York Times.

The interests of rural Americans are often underrepresented in state and national politics. One organizer has some ideas about how they can make their voices heard, Gary Abernathy writes for The Washington Post.

Rural physician Edwin Leap writes in MedPageToday about the difficulties rural residents encounter in seeking emergency care.

In a concession to the wet weather that has prevented many farmers from planting, the US Department of Agriculture has announced that farmers who plant cover crops on prevented planting acres will be able to hay or graze that land starting Sept. 1 without getting penalized on their crop insurance indemnity, Chris Clayton reports for DTN/The Progressive Farmer.