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all while continuing its foundational work in forest health, agricultural assistance, urban agriculture, and executing prescribed burns to protect longleaf pine ecosystems.  Partners in the Field Crucially, this evolution hasn’t severed ties

Verlyn Rosenberger, 88, got involved with the progressive grassroots community organization Illinois People’s Action (IPA) 20 years ago.

Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment,

despite having lower higher education costs than other states — because Georgia has not provided need-based aid.

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter.

 a 2001 ruling that protected inventoried roadless areas from further development.

and how — a community can revisit its assumptions about the costs and benefits of clean energy and decide to welcome development it once swore off.

Rural voters turned out in force across the 2026 primaries, shaping key races, and emerging as an electorate candidates cannot afford to overlook.

more than 260 Farmers Union members from 24 states.  Monday morning, 9/10, was spent at the Department of Agriculture, including time with Agriculture Secretary Ann Venneman.

A funny thing happened on the way to changing the clocks: Farmers got blamed for Daylight Saving Time (DST).  “Not only is that not true, but it is 100% not true.