To purchase an educational video copy of DELAFIELD, contact No Boy At All, LLC, email: Brodin@USinternet.com. Delafield - the filmmaker's site This site, designed and maintained by filmmaker Mark Brodin, features video clips that ended up on the cutting room floor, updates on the people in the film, commentary about current farm economics and policy, and an FAQ on the history of the church's decision to shut its doors. Rural Policy Research Institute Features interactive maps on the distribution of resources, farm payments and changes in population and income in rural counties across the U.S. Also includes a calendar of events on rural American issues. Center for Rural Affairs Aiming to strengthen family farms and rural communities, the Center's site provides federal and state legislative developments and a free newsletter surveying national events affecting rural America. National Farmers Union Referrals to state Farmers Union organizations; NFU activities include educational programs, legislative activities, and providing know-how for the formation and furtherance of member-owned and -operated cooperatives. National Family Farm Coalition An umbrella group of 33 grassroots rural advocacy groups, NFFC provides updates, action alerts and information on their task forces. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Articles, information and headline news on agriculture, the environment, trade and water issues as they pertain to family farms and rural communities. Land Stewardship Project Features grassroots programs for sustainable agriculture and communities and a directory of environmentally sound and a community-supported small farms. In Motion Magazine / "Rural America" An archive of feature articles and interviews on a variety of rural topics, co-edited by In Motion magazine and the Missouri Rural Crisis Center. New Rules Project - Agriculture This section of the New Rules website deals with family farm issues such as "battling bigness," "democratizing the local," "ensuring fair producer prices" and "favoring the local." Center for Rural Church Leadership Includes an email-listserv for dialogue on all aspects of rural ministry, articles relating to rural churches, resources and a bibliography. New Life Ministries / small churches This multi-denominational partnership organization offers online resources and publications pertaining to rural churches and small-town ministry. U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency Links to information on the USDA's many divisions, including the Office of Rural Community Development, National Agricultural Statistics Service and the Farm Service Agency online. Minnesota Legislative Reference Library agriculture and rural issues links Dozens of links to federal information, agricultural publications and organizations, commercial and university portals and more. American Farm Bureau The site for this policy group features farming news, a roundup of updates by state and a legislative action section. Farm Aid Providing assistance to poor and needy families in rural farming communities, FarmAid.org has a photo album from their famous concerts and a suggestions on how to help family farmers. National Farmers Organization Aiming to improve agricultural commodity prices by serving as a bargaining agent for its members, the NFO has info on their grain, livestock and dairy programs and a "risk management made easy" series. Films HOMECOMING: Sometimes I Am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay PBS award-winning companion site features the story of African American land loss and a chronicle of black farmers from the Civil War to the present. PRECIOUS MEMORIES: Our Vanishing Rural Churches Arkansas Educational Television Network's look at small country churches in Arkansas threatened with extinction. THE FARMER'S WIFE Frontline's acclaimed landmark portrait of three tumultuous years in the life of a Nebraska farm family facing its toughest crisis. Books Amato, Joseph. Decline of Rural Minnesota. Santa Cruz: Crossing Press, 1993. Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996. Ceynar, Marvin E. Healing the Heartland: Nonviolent Social Change and the American Rural Crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Omaha: Heartland Promotions, 1989. Cochrane, Willard W. The Development of American Agriculture and a Historical Analysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Cochrane, Willard W. Farm Prices: Myth and Reality. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1974. Cochrane, Willard W. Reforming Farm Policy: Toward a National Agenda. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. Flora, Cornelia Butler, Jan L. Flora, J. Spears, L. Swanson, Mark L. Weinberg. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change. Boulder, CO; Westview Press, 1992. Gaede, Beth Ann, ed. Ending with Hope: A Resource for Closing Congregations. Bethesda: The Alban Institute, 2002. Hart, John Fraser. The Rural Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Jung, Shannon, ed. Rural Ministry: The Shape of the Renewal to Come. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998. Levins, Richard A. Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Logsdon, Gene and Wendell Berry. At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. Sources National Center for Policy Analysis New Rules Project - Agriculture Fogarty, Thomas A. "Freedom to Farm? Not Likely," USA Today, January 2, 2002 Greider, William. "The Last Farm Crisis," The Nation, November 20, 2000 Maher, Heather. "When Farming Doesn't Pay," abcnews.com
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