Rural America is an In Motion Magazine section and a web site of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center edited by Rhonda Perry and Roger Allison. The Missouri Rural Crisis Center is a statewide organization of 5,500 farm and rural families with thirteen chapters around the state of Missouri. Also visit this MRCC site.

• Rural America: Current (see below)
• Rural America: 1995-2021

The 2023 Farm Bill Needs to Benefit Missourians Who Grow Our Food, Not Corporations

by Darvin Bentlage
Barton County, Missouri
Posted August 13, 2023

Land is changing hands, and large chunks are going to absentee investors, from billionaires and professional athletes to Wall Street bankers and foreign corporations. To stop this trend, we need policies and structural reform that allow for farmers to get paid a fair price and living wage from the market — in other words, from multinational corporations that currently benefit from cheap commodities and taxpayer subsidies.  … (read article)

Feature article

Merger of Sanderson Farms and Cargill is a Bad Deal for Farmers and Consumers

by Tim Gibbons
Columbia, Missouri
Posted September 27, 2022

Why conspire with your competitors when you can just merge?

Over the last two years, giant corporate meat companies have been settling lawsuits to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars … (read article)

Feature article

Missourians Need to Make Their Voices Heard About the Future of the Farm and Food System

by Tim Gibbons
Columbia, Missouri
Posted July 4, 2021

Missouri Rural Crisis Center recently sent in comments to the Biden Administration and USDA in response to their request for comments to “improve and reimagine the supply chains for the production, processing and distribution of agricultural commodities and food products.”

Now is the time to move forward with policies that create a fairer, and more resilient and sustainable food system. … (read article)