small towns

#agalerts

#AgAlerts: Small towns struggle; pesticide buffer zones; farm bankruptcies up

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 5, 2019

The current large farms, utilizing far fewer farms than in the past has created population loss that threatens scores of small towns that sprouted on the prairie in a different time, when larger numbers of small farmers depended on them.