April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

The 2025 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll confirmed that input and land costs are eroding profit margins on corn and soybean ...

I grew up in a house with a hand-crank grain grinder from Lehman’s catalog in the kitchen — a kitchen that in spite of a fairly recent remodel, intentionally lacks a dishwasher. My parents, while anti ...

Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through stereotypes.

Soybeans beginning to sprout on a farm in Nashville, N.C., in Nash County, on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Nash County is among the areas seeing an influx of new, formerly-urban residents. There’s nothing ...

Gold Shaw Farm shares what aspiring farmers should know before diving into rural life. ‘Most extreme crime': Daughter, mother ...

HARBOR SPRINGS Kathryn Washburn Breighner grew up eight miles from her grandmother in Fowler, Ind. Yet it was a set of three worn, leather-bound journals she inherited after her grandmother's death in ...

From the development team behind the Yomawari series, Hono Gurashi no Niwa is a life simulation game set in a nostalgic rural village. Farm and take care of livestock, enjoy activities like fishing ...

This is the sixth article about one of the 26 items on the Baton Rouge Bucket List. The Advocate's features staff is ticking off each of the 26 items throughout 2023 and write and report first-person ...