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As a boy growing up in Spencer, Iowa, Trent Walker spent summers helping on his grandfather’s farm, picturing that he someday would follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and become a farmer himself. During harvest season, he trick-or-treated at his grandpa’s grain bin site as trucks came in from the fields. He was particularly drawn to the changing seasons and how no two days were quite the same. “I would never be able to work in a factory,” said Walker, 30. “I would just get so bored.” With the passing years, Walker learned that access to land is one of the biggest obstacles for aspiring farmers like him. Buying land was largely out of reach. At $15,000 an acre, he calculated, an 80-acre parcel could cost $1.2 million. Renting was more realistic so he waited for a window of opportunity. That window opened when a relative of his wife, Jessika, retired and offered them land to rent in Dickens, not far from where he grew up in northwest Iowa. Walker said beginning farmers often need an established farmer stepping aside and choosing to give someone younger a start. “The biggest bridge, I think, is the guy retiring willing to give the...

The circuit court ruling injects even more confusion into a year-long battle over which map the state will use for the general election.

The Department of Defense on Thursday released clinical guidelines for testing and treating low testosterone in male service members.

Pasadena officials offered tips Sunday to thwart copper wire thefts plaguing local businesses, particularly rooftop air conditioning units.

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

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The government’s reaction to the cyclospora outbreak has been undermined by massive budget and staffing cuts under President Donald Trump, CNN has found – including nearly funding that disappeared whe...

New numbers are highlighting the enormous impact June storms had on Manitoba farmlands. According to the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC), — which provides support for farmers — more ...

Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.

Larry David seemingly tells his old friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to kick rocks in his new Barack Obama-produced HBO sketch comedy show "Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness."

Report by new chief of staff James Purnell calls for creation of powerful executive department dedicated to drawing up and implementing policy

In her memoir This Wild English, Nicola Wilding’s search to understand her mother’s drift to the Tommy Robinson right sheds light on liberal Britain’s betrayal of the white working class

Meidas Canada speaks with Markham Hislop of Energi Media.

Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Kiké Hernandez and wife Mariana Vicente, both Puerto Rico natives, voiced support for the resignation of Governor Rossello.