Maryland’s blue crab workers exercise agency even in systems that extract maximum value from their labor and minimize their presence.

Connor Barnes brings his butchering craft straight to small-time livestock farmers via a custom-made box truck, a relief to many in a consolidated industry.

Iowa elected officials are preparing to trash 60% of the state’s historical archives with no transparency or input from the public.

The Long-Time Union Organizer Leading a New Wave of Rural Organizing “When people work together across differences it’s good for the community” ...

What You Can Do to Save the Birds An Ohio artist’s bold project is a timely reminder of what we can do to protect birds—and ourselves ...

Joel Bleifuss is Barn Raiser Editor & Publisher and Board President of Barn Raising Media Inc. He is a descendent of German and Scottish farmers who immigrated to Wisconsin and South Dakota in the ...

The USDA-funded Managing Pasture for Healthy Farms and Soils Across Vermont aims to help farmers implement sustainable grazing practices.

Farmers in Trump country bet on renewable energy grants. Then the government changed the rules to favor fossil fuels.

Margarida Jorge is the executive director of Health Care for America Now!, a D.C.-based coalition of around 50 national and state grassroots organizations that advocates for quality, affordable access ...

The Bureau of Land Management's chaining practices could eliminate nearly half a million acres of ecologically rich pinyon-juniper forests.

America’s Public Lands Could Still Be Up for Sale Utah Sen. Mike Lee wants to solve the West’s housing crisis by selling public land. Behind him is a coterie of developers and conservative think tanks ...

As the race for the next chair of the Democratic Party heats up, candidates make their cases on how to get rural voters back to the party.