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 heather.chapman@uky.edu.
Etiquette, common sense, and the Golden Rule all play a role in the neighborly art of requesting permission to hunt on someone else's land. Read more here.
In some rural communities, social workers join with law enforcement to provide support for crisis calls that aren't related to criminal activity. Read more here.
Some towns, counties and states have interesting, even unique, ways to decide tied elections. In Pennsylvania, which calls for casting lots, a rural town will decide the winner of its deadlocked mayoral race by drawing numbered marbles from an antique jug that's been there for decades. How does your local government deal with ties? Read more here.
A 37-year-old farmer from western Minnesota started up a YouTube channel five years ago to try to give Americans a glimpse into everyday rural life. Now he has more than 850,000 subscribers, and he says about half are non-farmers. Read more here.
Agriculture Department data from 2019 has some interesting food for thought, one columnist writes. Texas has the most farmers and farmland of any state, with 247,000 farms and ranches covering 126 million acres. But its $5.5 billion yield puts it in second place to California, which had $10.9 billion in net farm income from only 69,000 farms. Alaska's farms collectively netted a $5.5 million loss, the only state to end up in the red. And though Alaska is the largest state, it has the fewest farms: 1,050, even fewer than the smallest state, Rhode Island, which has 1,100. Read more here.
An opinion article discusses hillbilly stereotypes in pop culture, and why they're outdated and lazy. Read more here.
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