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The article reports on subsidies and incentives, worth billions of U.S. dollars, passed under three laws in the U.S. since 2021 under U.S. President Joseph Biden's administration and led by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to support small-scale farmers. Topics discussed include the state of small-scale agriculture in the country according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, and factors that contributed to the decline in the number of farms in the country.

The article focuses on Max Thieriot, star and creator of "Fire Country," discussing how despite the show's filming location in British Columbia, his roots in Sonoma County, California, and his passion for winemaking led him to start a vineyard in rural Washington State.

The article provides information on China's shift from a one-child policy to a two-child policy in 2015.

The article explores the potential retirement crisis facing many small farms in the U.S. as more and more farmers are growing old but lack successors. Topics covered include decision of the Hulls, a rural family in New York to sell Hull-O Farms, the farm founded some 240 years ago, average age of U.S. farmers, why many farm families can no longer rely on their children to take over the business and how niche food trends are contributing to an increase in number of young farmers in New York.

Reports on the Fresh Air Fund, a project to bring New York City children to the farm for a summer vacation. Travel to the countryside; Learning about farm products sold in the grocery; Request for rural families to open their homes and to host such children.

The author presents a personal narrative of his experiences as a reponer for the Food section based in Atlanta, and looking for ways to tell more stories from the fields where our food grows.

The article focuses on the Ralph and Lisa Turner who grow organic vegetables at Laughing Stock Farm in Freeport, Maine, supplying wholesale produce to Portland restaurants.

Solving a Pension Mess To the Editor: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Madison, Wisc. THE buses rolling into the parking lot of Eau Claire's Chippewa Valley Technical College came from every corner of Wisconsin, and at least from one corner of Ontario, each packed with farm families wearing paper milking caps with ''Freedom'' written on them and brandishing signs that said, ''I Raw Milk.'' March 10 was smack in the middle of calving time, but the heifers would have to wait -- raw milk was that important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IN 1935, as part of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Farm Security Administration, which reached out to rural families as they struggled during the Depression. Roy Stryker, who oversaw the agency's photo documentary program, captured the strength of American culture in the depths of the country's despair. The photographs of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks showed us both the pain of America and the resilience of its people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The farm families living in these rocky hills in central Sudan confront every disease imaginable, from leprosy to malaria, and perhaps one-quarter of children die by the age of five. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on religion and China's poor. How the void left by the demise of Communist ideology is being filled by religion; Observation that the rural underclass is most desperate for salvation; How, because authorities have made it difficult for established churches to operate in the countryside, many rural Chinese have turned to underground, often heterodox religious movements; Role of charismatic sect leaders, many of whom demand money; Overview of sects in China; Personal accounts of members belonging to religious sects. INSET: Christians in China: An Expanding Faith.

Focuses on telecommunications in communities in the developing world. Lack of telephones and digital technology in small villages; Belief that the Web can help bring better education and health care to rural areas; Cost of installing telecommunications networks.

Focuses on the attitude of rural residents toward rural development in the United States. Implication of such attitude; Information on rural sprawl.