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 ...

Corn may be a commodity, but cloth sacks from the 1930s and ’40s are anything but ordinary. They’re bright, bold snapshots of ...

Agricultural families increasingly turn to the ACA marketplace to secure affordable healthcare while maintaining independent farming lifestyle.

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 ...

A look at how the LSU Rural Life Museum got its start. A look at how the LSU Rural Life Museum got its start to become a historical and educational treasure for not only Louisiana, but the world.

For anyone wanting to experience rural life, HarBet Lodge may be the place to do it. Nestled in Alvin just outside of Houston, owners describe it as one's "ranch away from home." The lodge, which can ...

SPARTANBURG COUNTY — Robert Ivey has called the family farm home for all of his 42 years. His dad bought the 140 acres between Woodruff and Reidville in southwestern Spartanburg County in 1970 after ...

A 250-pound pig, who had been living with his owner in the back of a hatchback car in Portland, is now adjusting to rural life in Scio, Oregon. On Wednesday afternoon — just days after members of ...

The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...