Listen and subscribe to our Curious Minnesota podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify A century ago, before the federal government provided social services, most of Minnesota’s counties ran poor farms to ...

Oregon once required counties to take care of their neediest residents. For decades, relief institutions known as “poor farms” operated throughout the state. They provided food, shelter, medical care ...

Walworth County's history includes individuals doing their part to provide needed services for its population. T.W. Hill was one of these — donating land for a school and acting as superintendent of ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesian poultry farmer Yohanes Sugihtononugroho faced ruin four years ago when plummeting prices forced him to slaughter all 100,000 of his chickens and ...

I had a great life in Edmonton, Canada, but when I fell in love with a farmer, I decided to leave the city. I moved to a small prairie farm where there are more cows than humans, and I haven't looked ...

With winter yield map meetings underway, Ken Ferrie says one question keeps coming up from corn growers as he talks with them. The question is, “In certain soil types, we are seeing a consistently ...