Rural America has lots of opportunities and challenges, particularly when it comes to employment. This piece explores the ...

CEDAR — Every year for the past 10 years, Jose Abel has traveled more than 2,000 miles from the region of Durango in Mexico to northwest Michigan to tend to the grapes at the region's famed vineyards.

When most people picture a farmer, they don’t envision someone teaching math, driving a school bus or managing a bank branch. Yet for the majority of U.S. farm households, income from these off-farm ...

As reported by USDA data and recently highlighted by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more than three-fourths of household income for farm families comes from off the farm. Per USDA data, ...