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We asked. You answered.

The public was asked to share images to answer this question. While many people shared photographs of sunrises and sunsets showing the vast landscape, others captured the hard work of what living on a farm really means or focused on the downtown that symbolizes life in a small town.

What Is Rural?

THANK YOU TO OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS:

• Micky Beckman
• Gary Bellert
• Angela Boesche
• Aubri Bourge
• Richard Cooler
• Gerald Davis
• Noel (Brye) Davis
• Laurie Erwin
• Ken Evans
• Shelley Gardener
• Nicole Jonutz
• James Lowe
• Greg Martin
• Bob Myers
• Karen Sharp
• Sidni Stoffregen
• Tim O’Shaughnessy

“[Farming] Is like any other part of life, if you don’t change, you don’t survive.”
— Bill Lenschow

“In the early summer, there are about 7-10 days when the rows of corn [planted 30 inches apart] first branch out, and you can’t see the rows any longer. The field is a sea of green. Later, the leaves relax, and you can see the separate rows again.”
— John Dietrich