Movement of farm workers to cities in recent decades has created vast areas of flammable brush on abandoned land ...

Officials with the Ozarks Heritage Research Center (OHRC) at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) will host a special presentation on forgotten schoolhouses in the Ozarks at 6 p.m. Tuesday, ...

In Kansas, we pride ourselves on hard work, strong communities and self-reliance. Kansans value a sense of fairness. But over the past several months, decisions made in Washington have left many ...

Despite corporate narratives of jobs and prosperity, the booming factory farm industry is devastating rural economies and communities.

They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned it into a guesthouse. The couple have also started a homestead with a farm and a beekeeping business.

Kansas farms have expanded their operations and are now bigger than ever, which has led to an economic boom. But that also means fewer farmers, and that has contributed to depopulation in rural ...

It's called USDA Rural Development, and the turmoil it faces may erode a major source of federal aid for small towns and farms. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports.

Thousands of acres worth of solar farms have taken over peanut and cotton farms in this rural Georgia county, meaning residents now live next to industry.

Daily Yonder Analysis found that wind, solar, and storage projects that have not yet come online are expected to generate ...