Small rural businesses fight for bailout aid
Travis Hogman describes himself as a "small fish" who competes with "just about everybody." The owner of The Lumberyard in rural, far southwestern Wyoming, squares off with regional rivals like...
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Hot hemp pits states against feds
New federal regulations would make it harder for hemp growers to prove their plants are not marijuana, in what could be a major setback to a promising industry legalized just...
Property taxes sink farmland owners
Doug Schmale's family farm straddles the Great Plains in two parts: 4,500 acres in western Nebraska and a separate 160-acre plot in eastern Colorado. Schmale pays wildly different property taxes...
Farmers struggle as hemp harvest winds down
Ajit Singh strode across his 16-acre hemp field toward a broken-down harvester. He'd been hoping all day that the mechanic now crouched beside the machine could get it back up...
Once one of America’s favorite pastimes, greyhound racing eats dust
WASHINGTON — Rick Bartley once raced the greyhounds he breeds in Kansas all over the country, but the past decade has slowly stripped him of his livelihood. As state laws...
Cannabis banking challenges go beyond marijuana
Kat Merryfield was ready to share her farm-to-home oils, chocolates and creams with the rest of the country. But banks and credit card processors weren't ready to work with her...
Dreaming big for a risky hemp crop
ORLINDA, Tenn. — Standing between two rows of thigh-high hemp crops close to the Tennessee-Kentucky border, the retired owner of a New Hampshire convenience store cheerfully recalled why he chose...