Sonja Hillgren: But Block conceded that heavier Soviet grain-buying was not enough to turn around the poor economic conditions in rural America. High interest rates, low farm income, the strong ...

family-run farms typical of the west. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many of those farms were abandoned, leaving large areas of land (estimated at around 20 million hectares) to be colonized by ...

A boy plays in the snow during Siberia's notoriously cold winter. Far from Kremlin leaders in Moscow and the frontlines of ...

Agriculture continues to be the Soviet Union’s No.1 headache. At the time when farm productivity is rising everywhere else in the world, per-acre yields are actually falling in the Soviet Union.