WHAT: The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program will provide $16 million in direct payments to farm families and $3 billion to purchase fresh produce, dairy and meat. Farmers have been forced to destroy ...

The Great Depression did not just wipe out savings. It pushed thousands of farm families toward foreclosure, often through paperwork they barely understood and courts that moved faster than their ...

Depression is not as common as anxiety disorders for farmers and others in the agricultural population, but it has key importance because of its propensity to incline farmers to purposefully end their ...

For more than a century, the Walker family has run Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach with a conservative style that weathered the Great Depression and ensuing downturns. Now the family is looking ...

The Farm Bill, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on Dec. 20, 2018, died on Oct. 1, but with Congress on its long election break until November 14, it has not yet been buried. When Congress ...

More than 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2023, the nation’s highest yearly rate of suicide on record. Farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, ...

SPARTANBURG — When Spartanburg City Council approved a $158,000 contract to clean up invasive species as part of the Duncan Park Revisioning Plan, City Councilwoman Megan Smith pointed out the paradox ...