A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
The sale of US soybeans to China may rebound this year, but a fundamental shift in US policy is needed to break farmers out of their current cycle of hardship, agricultural economy experts said during an Ag & Water Desk, Arkansas Times & Investigate Midwest panel in February.
Eubanks' new book, “When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land,” focuses on the Mississippi Delta and how policy, or lack thereof, has created poverty and inequality that is persistent and acute.
Residents of Canton, Miss., say traffic and dust have already made life a ‘mess’. And they worry what will happen when hundreds of backup diesel generators go online. New Desk reporting by Illan Ireland, Mississippi Free Press.
Consolidation in ag, higher input prices, land access issues and other obstacles are making it hard for young farmers to gain a foothold in U.S. agriculture. By Olivia Cohen, The Gazette & Cassandra Stephenson, Tennessee Lookout.
Investigate Midwest, the Arkansas Times, and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk will host a live virtual panel examining the impacts on U.S. farmers.
