I love to read stories about places that are set outside my local community, especially if they give me new insight into how things are changing over time. This story on rural Kansas in NewFoodEconomy.org provides a look at how agriculture has contributed to long-term trends in the region, including negligible population growth, increases in the size of farms, and what they grow. Climate is part of the story but takes a back seat to other trends in agriculture which are familiar even in the Southeast, although we don’t have the large wheat farms described in this story. You can read it at https://newfoodeconomy.org/rural-kansas-depopulation-commodity-agriculture/.
