Food & Agriculture

Iowa’s environmental crisis has policy leaders and farmers challenging corporate agriculture

Maine stepped up to protect its farmers. It’s time for Congress to protect farmers nationwide.

Iowa farmers warn of lost opportunities to expand the agricultural safety net

The state’s biggest business lobby helps two residents challenge a Polk County town’s restrictions on livestock feeding operations

New group mobilizes citizens to protect Iowa’s “last island of ecological integrity”

Reflections of a lifelong Montana rancher on the corporate takeover of our food system and what it means for the future of our nation and planet

Blue Cross of North Carolina counts the Farm Bureau, a champion of industrial hog farms, as a major customer

A Q&A with author Austin Frerick on how the “barons” responded to his book and what consolidation in the food industry means for Main Street

After hours of contentious debate over nutrition, conservation, the definition of “cuts” and the meaning of “bipartisanship,” the Republican-led committee passed a bill that crossed several of Democrats’ “red lines”