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Farmers and ranchers have one thing in common: the need to manage risk, from weather, markets, or other forces. Crop insurance can be a useful tool for farmers and ranchers in managing risk. But...
- Farm and Food
Rural America—once a part of your life, always a part of your life. While many people can relate to this idea, Jack Dill knows this to be true from personal experience. Growing up on a family farm in...
- Small Towns
Antes de las inundaciones de la primavera en Fremont, Nebraska, la pequeña empresa agrícola de Hilda Moreno estaba prosperando.
- Farm and Food
- Small Towns
Community organizing associate for the Center for Rural Affairs, Gladys Godinez, spends her days working toward inclusion in rural communities. She carefully prepares for and hosts events to bring communities together. But, on Aug. 8, 2018, she found herself in the middle of a community torn apart.
- Small Towns
¿Ha querido reunirse con otros para una gran causa? ¿Que tal creando oportunidades para promover un negocio? ¿O, un centro de recursos donde la gente puede compartir información?
- Small Towns
Before this spring’s flooding in Fremont, Nebraska, Hilda Moreno’s small family farm business was thriving.
- Farm and Food
- Small Towns
When picturing the states in the middle of America, one might conjure up images of rolling, green prairie; vast, tidy rows of corn, soybeans, and alfalfa; or cattle grazing in pastures, standing near...
- Policy
In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced more than $400 million available for farmers and rural business owners under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
- Policy
Yomara Hernández ha tenido una historia de amor de toda la vida con todo lo floral. Desde temprana edad, ayudó a su madre a hacer flores de tela para ramos de novia y decoraciones para bodas con flores naturales y artificiales. Su madre solía venderlos como juegos completos, y ahora Yomara también se dedica a los arreglos florales.
- Lending
Have you ever wanted to gather people for a great cause? What about creating opportunities to promote a business? Or, a resource hub where people can share knowledge?
- Small Towns
A series of four short vignettes using the real-life experiences of immigrants from Laos, Mexico, Sudan, and the Netherlands, “Vang” tells the story of how immigrants in the Des Moines, Iowa, region are using their agricultural skills to create better lives for themselves and their families.
- Small Towns
Yomara Hernandez has had a lifelong love affair with all things floral. From an early age, she helped her mother make fabric flowers for bridal bouquets, and decorations for weddings with natural and artificial flowers. Her mother used to sell them as complete sets, and now Yomara makes her living selling flowers, too.
- Lending
Registration is open for the first Empowerment for Latino Women in Business Conference, hosted by the Center for Rural Affairs and the Small Business Administration.
- Lending
2019 is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record at a time when some Iowa farmers still are dealing with extreme spring flooding and five years of falling income.
- Policy
America’s agricultural history spans generations. Some of the family farms still in operation today have been feeding our neighbors for more than 100 years, and will continue to do so for the...
- Farm and Food
- Small Towns
Himelda Lomeli siempre quiso ser su propia jefa. Después de trabajar en la industria de la cosmetología desde 1992, ahora tiene la independencia que tanto deseaba.
- Lending
Plains states have faced more weather-related catastrophes during seven months in 2019 than entire previous years combined. Flooding has been a major issue for many people, especially residents of...
- Farm and Food
Himelda Lomeli has always wanted to be her own boss. After working in the cosmetology industry since 1992, she now has the independence she craved.
- Lending
Dongwen Wang knows numbers—she’s so good with figuring out finances that she’s made a career out of it. Currently an accounting associate with the Center for Rural Affairs, Dongwen started with the...
- Small Towns
Consolidation of companies in the food system has had negative impacts for rural communities. One detriment is lack of choice and higher prices for farmers when purchasing inputs, as fewer and fewer...
- Farm and Food
