Cash Crop Manufacturing Ruralism 
Agwired
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S. is proud to announce the selection of Kirbe Schnoor and Janie Johnson as its new television hosts for FarmHer and RanchHer, two shows returning to primetime on Rural America’s Most Important Network in 2024. Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Senator John Thune (R-S.D.),
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora.
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Civil Eats
JULY 9, 2024
From their perspective, these are future clients, or they may be existing clients,” said Ben Lilliston, the director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
Food Environment and Reporting Network
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. Tobacco manufacturing jobs—de-stemming leaves, making cigarettes—accounted for only 1.6 percent of all manufacturing jobs in the state. Photo by John West.
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