With U.S. help, Americans return to the farm
Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country.

Eyeing greener acres, new farmers reap growing U.S. aid
HALLSVILLE, Missouri (Reuters) - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country. A better quality of food and life are among the factors that caused Dan, 47, to leave a career in ...

Kane Farm Bureau marks century of helping farmers — and some city folks, too
When the Kane County Farm Bureau started out a century ago, 80-year-old John White Jr. says, most county residents were farmers.But their lives were drastically different from that of farmers today, or even from those of the city folk of their day.The biggest differences were transportation and communications, White says. There was no radio or TV to bring the outside world to the farm, and no ...

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Eyeing greener acres, new farmers reap growing US aid
Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regretsin trading their city lives for the country.