Fleece challenged the popular myth that a single event—the Wall Street Crash of 1929—caused the collapse. Instead, he painted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...

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, ...

History doesn’t necessarily repeat itself, but it can tell us a great deal about the events that shaped our shared agricultural history. The 1880s is a prime example of long-ago events that impact our ...