rural America These rural communities feed the world. They’re also going hungry. Food insecurity rates are rising faster in farm-dependent counties than almost anywhere else in the nation. By Ben Felder, Investigate Midwest / 24 Sep 2025
Agribusiness As Trusted Voices, Farmers Could Be Key To Boosting Rural Vaccination Rates Boosting COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural America is now less a problem of access and more an issue of trust. By Christine Herman, Illinois Newsroom / 13 Aug 2021
Data Harvest GRAPHIC: Very few farmers are millennials, and, of those, the vast majority are white Young producers, farmers and ranchers who are 35 and younger represented 9% of all American producers in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nearly all, 96%, of By Mary Hennigan, Investigate Midwest / 14 Jul 2021
