Tag: Rural Economy - Flatland KC

Rural America Grew Early in Pandemic, Mostly in Recreational Counties

By | January 26, 2023 |

Three people fishing in a boat on Table Rock Lake.

Despite a spike in deaths from COVID-19 and fewer births, recent research suggests rural counties saw population growth during the first year of the pandemic. Remote work opportunities could have contributed to more people moving to scenic rural destinations.

Fertilizer Washes off Midwest Farm Fields and Taints Communities’ Drinking Water, Poisons Gulf of Mexico

By | December 10, 2021 |

A cornfield in Champaign County, Illinois.

As rainfall events become more intense and frequent, fertilizers applied to Midwestern farmland wash away, contaminating waterways near and far.

‘Highway to Hemp’: Waves of Fiber and Grain

By | December 1, 2021 |

Melissa Nelson-Baldwin catches hemp hurds as they fall out of the decorticator at South Bend Industrial Hemp.

South Bend Industrial Hemp, located at the outskirts of Great Bend, Kansas, is at the cutting edge of the emerging industrial hemp economy.

It Takes A Village to Reach Rural Broadband Fringe

By | May 6, 2021 |

A grain elevator in Turney, Missouri, looms large over the small community. An elevator in neighboring Stewartsville will be the location of the intelligent router sending broadband signals to the village.

U.S. Ignite broadband experiment finds a host in a tiny Missouri village.

‘Steward of the Land’: Missouri Farmer Foresees Successful 2021

By | March 17, 2021 |

Trey Garst works on his planter in preparation for a welder to come on March 5, 2021.

A Missouri farmer keeps a wary eye on the unruly Missouri River as grain prices soar and federal subsidies flow.