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Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

by Lisa Elmaleh,

The Kesecker family has been farming in Morgan County for seventy years. In the spring of 2016, a company called Mountaineer Gas offered them a small sum of money if…

Bringing in the Beans

by Ted Genoways,

Harvest on an American family farm

Citizen Walmart

by Dan Halpern,

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

Broken Heartland

by Wil S. Hylton,

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

The appraisal

by John Hildebrand,

A company town gives its farmers the business

A yield against the odds. Harvest time on a Missouri farm

by Richard Rhodes,

The Vernon Schiller farm

by Wayne Rindels,

One man’s meat

by Harper’s Staff,

One Man’s Meat

by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White,

My sister Marcia

by Louise Chandler Moulton,