The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association called on the federal government to establish more rural-friendly rules for broadband grants. Read more here.
James Fallows, who crisscrossed the U.S. writing about rural America and its newspapers for The Atlantic, writes now about how we can apply the lessons from FDR's New Deal to rebuild the economy from the pandemic. Read more here.
President Biden reverses his predecessor's freeze on certain green cards and temporary work visas for farmworkers and other skilled workers. Read more here.
At the Agricultural Outlook Forum this week, USDA leadership committed to helping control the pandemic as well as tackling deep-seated farming issues. Read more here.
Scientists are forecasting a drought for much of the Western U.S. this spring. Read more here.
Twenty percent of Wisconsin wolves are to be killed after a court sided with hunters. Read more here.
Extreme winter weather has caused shipping nightmares for grain barges. Read more here.
The internet has played a critical role in farmer networking during the pandemic. Read more here.
An explainer shows the ins and outs of how the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund broadband auction works. Read more here.
Frozen pipes in Texas are the latest warning of what will happen to water systems across the U.S. if policies and aging infrastructure are not updated to account for the increase in extreme weather climate change brings. Read more here.
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Both Florida Senators voting against Vilsack? Where's the risk management in that? Florida's farmers should start looking for other channels into the USDA
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