Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low-income Americans in rural areas can struggle to pay market-rate rents. mphillips007/iStock via Getty Images Plus The high cost ...

(WSAW) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced a second round of payments for specialty crop producers through the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program. It will ...

In this April 5, 2010 photo, Lisa Kartek stands near an open field and looks toward the home she purchased in Annandale, Minnesota, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development ...

Champaign, IL (Investigate Midwest) – Guess is a full-time truck driver and his wife, Stephanie, works at a bank. Oftentimes, money from their day jobs goes back to their 19-acre farm. Farmer John ...

Farmer Barry Evans drops dusty soil from a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat in Kress, Texas. Funding freezes threaten to halt the $11 billion dedicated to two land conservation ...

The high cost of renting and buying homes in U.S. cities is no secret. But this affordability problem isn't limited to urban regions – it affects rural areas as well. Rural areas, home to about 25% of ...