Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and t

Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019” An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, a

As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the environment. T

Too many aging Americans and their families are scared by the prospect of a healthcare event requiring long-term care. How do they pay for it? Will they lose th

On Behalf of the Family Farm traces the development of women’s activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women’s lives were being t