Are your ancestors lolling in your genealogy files, identified only by their dates of birth and death, and by whom they married? Perhaps you should breathe a little life into their dull existences by finding out how they supported themselves and their families. ...more

January 11, 2009

Corn blankets eastern Nebraska in the summer. Straight roads glide over the hills, dividing the fields like measuring tape. In the 19th century the Homestead Act sectioned the land into neat plots for new settlers. ...more

July 14, 2008

Welfare as we knew it ended years ago. But not for farmers. ...more

May 20, 2008

An emergency rule designed to guard Florida's citrus crop against a fungus that might be on California fruit shipped into the state withstood an initial court challenge Wednesday. ...more

December 20, 2007