Resource Rural

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

• For Jimmy Wright, a grocery store is about more than selling food. It’s about serving the community. About 40% of Wright's Market sales come through SNAP. With support from the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), Wright reinvested in the store, improved its fresh food offerings and lowered operating costs, helping the business grow while sustaining local jobs. See how investing in a local grocery store can benefit an entire community in this story with Reinvestment Fund

  5 October 2026 · Resource Rural · $2–2.5K · 125K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

• When John Benedict moved to rural Arizona and started farming, he wanted to find a way to make healthy food more accessible to the people who needed it most. He made that vision a reality through The Local Co-Op, SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks. As Benedict puts it, it’s a “win-win”: families get more fresh food, farmers can reach new customers and more dollars stay in the local community. Learn how one farmer is turning a vision for a stronger local food system into reality, through this piece

  5 October 2026 · Resource Rural · $2–2.5K · 125K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• Dave Preisler has called Le Sueur County home for 38 years. After 28 years leading the Minnesota Pork Producers Association, he ran for county commissioner to serve the rural community he loves. Around 550 families here count on SNAP to buy groceries, which also helps keep local stores going. Now a budget law passed by Congress and signed by the President is shifting the cost of running SNAP onto counties, and in Minnesota that shows up on property tax bills that farmers and homeowners, who ar

  14 August 2026 · Resource Rural · $2–2.5K · 175K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Steve Schmitt has spent his life showing up for Meeker County, in the Air Force, on the farm, with Eden Valley Fire and Rescue, and now as a county commissioner. About 1,600 of his neighbors use SNAP to buy groceries, putting food on the table and bringing around $300,000 into local stores. Running the program takes people, too. Someone has to sign folks up, check who qualifies, and keep the paperwork moving, and in Minnesota that work falls to counties. A new federal budget law shifts more of

  14 August 2026 · Resource Rural · $2–2.5K · 175K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

• When Jenna Moore launched the OKC Food Hub, she wanted to make it easier for Oklahoma farmers to sell their food and for communities to buy it. The Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program helped turn that vision into reality, connecting small and midsize farmers with new markets while making locally grown food more accessible. For Moore, the impact went far beyond the farmers she worked with. When rural farms grow, they support local jobs, businesses and spending throughout their communi

  2 October 2026 · Resource Rural · $1–1.5K · 80K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• 300 miles round-trip for a knee replacement. 600 miles for eye surgery. That's what healthcare access looks like for a lot of people on the Navajo Nation. James Parrish, Jr., is a Navajo Army veteran who came home to Kayenta after most of his career. ""Home was always in my heart,"" he said. A mobile VA clinic showed up in Kayenta and caught a heart condition nobody knew he had. Two weeks after getting a pacemaker, James was speaking at a high school Veterans Day event. He's 82. He's still sho

  22 May 2026 · Resource Rural · $1–1.5K · 80K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library