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LISTEN: LMH and Real Rural on Forum with Michael Krasny, and the California Report.

LOOK: "Real Rural," a multimedia portrait of rural California that tells stories from throughout the state.

LOOK: Op-ed in San Francisco Chronicle: rural California should not be dismissed, ignored or forgotten.

LOOK: Combatting climate change on a South Dakota cattle ranch, at The Atlantic.

LOOK: Series at The Atlantic about North Dakota's Devils Lake and a flood that has lasted two decades--and counting.

LOOK: LMH is chosen as an Alicia Patterson Foundation journalism fellow, for work on the project "The Uncertain Future of American Agriculture."

LISTEN: Edible Radio, in conversation with Georgia rancher Will Harris.

LOOK: Article on ag, water and community in California's Central Valley, in the latest McSweeney's (see a PDF here).

READ & WATCH: Roundup of the panel discussion "The Changing Role of American Farmers," with Lisa M. Hamilton, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Fred Kirschenmann, and Mary-Howell Martens; video by "King Corn" filmmaker Curt Ellis.

READ: Review of Wendell Berry's latest, at the San Francisco Chronicle.

READ: Op-ed about the dairy farm crisis at the Christian Science Monitor.

READ: "Let Them Eat Meat" at Audubon Magazine.