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America’s rural population is on the upswing, but the growth is concentrated in retirement areas or regions with meatpacking plants and other forms of agricultural processing that rely on Hispanics and other immigrants for labor, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.

Cargill is offering consumers a way to learn more about the family farms raising their Thanksgiving birds this Fall.

Alternative Energy Development broke ground this week on a wood pellet manufacturing plant in Copiah County, Miss., that is projected to process 1 million tons of pulp wood a year and ship 500,000 tons overseas.

Women in agriculture from both developed and developing countries say widespread gender discrimination persists and poses obstacles to their ability to help feed the world, according to a study from Corteva Agriscience.