I've always gotten a certain amusement about the banality of corn. I am not the only person who feels this way. If you watch Conan O'Brien written episodes of The Simpsons, back 8 decades ago when the show was good, there are a number of...
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One of the worst parts of the grotesque and false right-wing attacks on Shirley Sherrod back in 2010 is that she had been an activist for Black land ownership for.
This 1946 General Electric film is an attempt to get rural communities to invest in building or expanding their electric supply infrastructure. I'm not going to lie--this is pretty boring..
This is an interesting little article on automation and farming. Most of the buzz surrounding vehicular automation and autonomy is found in the circles of transportation, where technophiles tout driverless cars as a cure-all for everything from traffic jams to environmental pollution. But operator-free vehicles...
On January 3, 1931, farmers converged on England, Arkansas to demand poverty relief. This led to Will Rogers' poverty tour and a greater national conversation about conditions in rural America.
There was a moment in those halcyon days of late 2008, when liberals across the nation thought electing a president could actually by itself lead to a transformational moment that.
One of the worst things about modern America are ag-gag laws, passed in many states over the past decade to keep undercover animal rights reporters from finding out and publicizing the abuse to animals that take place in factory feeding operations. I talked about these...
On January 1, 1867, a landowner named Isham Bailey signed a one-year sharecropping deal with freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts. While there is no obvious date to discuss sharecropping,.
This is the grave of Earl Butz. Born in Albion, Indiana in 1909, Butz grew up working on his parents' dairy farm. Unlike many young farm boys, Butz kept on.
While food issues as political activism get nowhere the attention among liberals that it did a decade ago (remember the Michael Pollan for Obama's Secretary of Agriculture boomlet in late 2008?), our food supply is deeply unsustainable. I am skeptical of most agricultral innovations in...
This is the grave of Ephraim Bull. Born in 1806 in Boston, Bull was not destined for a life as an agricultural innovator. He was a city boy and was.
None of this is going to move Trump voters away from voting for their lovely white supremacist, but at least they are getting what they ask for. Here are the.