Agriculture and state

The Trouble with Iowa

by Richard Manning,

Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses

Toward a Second Haitian Revolution

by Steven Stoll,

The Necessity of Agriculture

by Wendell Berry,

From a May 16 speech given in acceptance of the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award. Novelist and conservationist Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) was the author of over thirty works of fiction…

Shawangunk Correctional Facility–Wallkill, NY

Art by Sandow Birk,

The sweet smell of subsidies

by Richard Manning,

The grass may be greener in Canada, but U.S. farm policy spreads the green around

Holding to the land

by Ralph Beer,

A rancher's sorrow

Of mites and men

by William Tucker,

In which scientists and environmentalists argue about the right way to kill insects

What happened to the farm bloc?

by Carroll Kilpatrick,

The jacknife farm program

by Harper’s Staff,

Puerto Rico’s bootstraps

by Grace F. (Grace Falke) Tugwell,

The Farm Bloc and the War

by Wesley McCune,