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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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

Keeping Farmland in Farmers’ Hands Farm transfers are complex. Anna Sekine helps farmers pass their land to the next generation.

The armchair quarterbacks are out in full force after Wisconsin’s unusual split midterm decision. After an onslaught of strategically racist dark money ads, the Democrat’s first African American ...

I am a small, organic vegetable farmer in southern Maine, in the town of Topsham, where I grew up. For the past 15 years, our farm has worked with U.S. Department of Agriculture to help build ...

Not Every Farmer Wants to “Get Big or Get Out” As land ownership continues to consolidate into fewer and wealthier hands, some small farmers vow to stay in place ...

Voters, not Big Money, should chose Democratic nominees. That will take a serious plan of reform—starting with campaign finance.