The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

The Rural Blog

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Regenerative-ag farmers had to persuade Trump to sign order over opposition from Farm Bureau boss in Oval Office

Live, virtual panel discussion on the link between agricultural sprays and cancer cases in the Midwest, May 7

Kansas fitness centers focus on providing exercise care to rural residents with Parkinson's disease

Quick hits: New 'Product of USA' seal launched; mistaken inventions; farming worms win; a new weed killer

Unhappy with the expense of spraying crops with a rig, an N.C. farmer turned to drones. Now he builds them.

Trump's order increases the production of controversial herbicide glyphosate

Report: Pesticides may be driving Midwestern cancer crisis

American agricultural industry successfully prevents MAHA strategy plan from bashing key pesticides

Cotton field project helps farmers and students learn how to outsmart bugs while saving money and time

Report: Farmers and agricultural leaders put the brakes on part of national 'Make America Healthy Again' agenda

Iowa's water is polluted with farming nitrates and pesticides, but a potential solution challenges the 'status quo'

Surrounded by crops sprayed with pesticides, Missouri's Bootheel residents report high rates of cancer

Upcoming 'Make America Healthy Again' report targeting farming chemicals is already under review

For the first time in decades, the EPA issued an emergency action to move weedkiller off the market

Many U.S. farmers use Syngenta pesticide, which is owned by China. Its CEO is working to keep farmers' trust.

Flora and fauna: Terrier sniffs out turtles; mow less and pick more flowers; vultures threaten livestock; snap-pea science

Helping to save the world might start with inviting bugs back; they've got a lot to offer

Environmental groups sue EPA over seeds coated with neonicotinoids, which are highly toxic to many insects

Quick hits: How the nation's most extreme anti-vaccine law hurt a Montana hospital; learning to live with beavers; housing market cools; gaps found in pesticide regulation

EPA is putting new restrictions on prestcides malathion, diazinon and chlorpryifos to protect endangered species