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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A town that stymied winery growth now owes more than $49 million to wine operators

Quick hits: USDA lending system called outdated; rewriting the history of farming; who funds pink-slime publications?

Invasive species that ruins grapes, hops, fruits, nuts and hardwoods is spreading from Pennsylvania

Chinese retaliate against Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum with levies on pork, fruit, wine, ethanol, ginseng

Prohibition gradually dying out in rural Kentucky

Rural Walla Walla County, Washington, has reinvented itself as a wine and food mecca

USA Today lists best festivals in the U.S.; many promote tourism in rural areas

Map shows winemakers and commercial brewers

Mitchell, S.D., and Walla Walla, Wash., recognized for using technology to revive their economies

Climate change could turn much of Northwest into wine country, but that could threaten wildlife

Drought likely to add delectability to Midwest wine

Pesticide drift damages Oregon vineyards

Southwest Va. county board rejects program to re-establish elk on mined land, as E. Ky. has done

Economy seems to be helping agri-tourism, as vacationers stay closer to home

Mostly dry Kentucky county supports two wineries

'Sawdust shock' hits farmers, manufacturers, others

Kentucky farm joins others in replacing tobacco with wine grapes