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.
The new play "West By God" is a love letter to West Virginia, writes Thomas Floyd of The Washington Post. Read more here.
Hemp and marijuana growers face challenges in banking, Sophie Quinton and April Simpson report for Stateline. Read more here.
The trade war with China crushed a growing Chinese market for American cranberries, Adrian Ma reports for NPR. Read more here.
In a recent episode of the About South podcast, co-producer Kelly Vines talks to Dwight Billings, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, about what drew the coal mining industry to central Appalachia and the future of the region. Listen to it here.
In the most recent episode of the American Farm Bureau Federation's Farmside Chat podcast, AFBF president and podcast host Zippy Duvall talks to Tennessee first-generation farmer and family nurse practitioner Matt Niswander about his work to address the opioid crisis in rural America. Listen to it here.
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Friday, October 18, 2019
Quick hits: 'West By God' play a love letter to West Virginia; banking challenges for cannabis farmers, and more
Labels:
agriculture,
Appalachia,
cannabis,
coal,
farmers,
farming,
fruit,
hemp,
international trade,
marijuana,
mining,
narcotics,
rural health,
theatre,
trade
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