(Source: "Effect of farm structure on rural community well-being" by SooJin Park and Steven Deller) President Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, made famous the statement, “Get big or get ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—John J. Green, director of Mississippi State’s Southern Rural Development Center and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, is the 2025 Rural Renewal Research Prize ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Rural America covers 74% of the land surface of the country with over 46 million citizens in ...

The importance of rural health research and lessons learned are shared by University at Buffalo investigators and their community partners. “In New York State, rural poverty is a long and ongoing ...

Cori Wittman Stitt of Wittman Farms argues that today’s economic pressures demand sustained, targeted public investment in ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Solar farms covering hundreds or even thousands of acres are in the pipeline across Michigan, and rural Washtenaw County is no exception. But those renewable energy projects ...

Just because the internet is available doesn’t mean people can afford it. Will funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act help close the price gap that keeps some families from using ...

Trump’s 2025 bill rolls back key wind and solar tax credits. Rural farmers risk losing income from turbines and solar panels. Tax cuts could raise upfront costs, slow new projects. Clean energy funds ...