Food & Agriculture

Pelican Township gets dragged into a national campaign to upend local zoning rules.

For Iriel Edwards, a decision to take up farming in Louisiana was fueled by a desire to connect to the deep ecological knowledge of her ancestors

“If we Democrats don’t stand unequivocally for family farmers, why do we think they should stand with us?”

If Democrats were strategic, they would seize this moment

"I've never seen a crop that stood the heat and stood the drought and still made me money," says Matt Little, who grows millet in Ellis County, Oklahoma

As land ownership continues to consolidate into fewer and wealthier hands, some small farmers vow to stay in place

Ioway, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek) and Quapaw share their traditional practices with both Native and nonnative farmers to improve the soil and water for everyone

Through small-scale production, farmers can make more money and their customers can get better milk

Proponents of industrial agriculture seek access to emails and threaten local officials with lawsuits to prevent environmental regulation of CAFOs

Vermont and other states consider how to regulate the new industry

The signs of a changing climate harbinger hard times for agricultural communiities in the Great Plains and the Midwest

Pulitzer Prize winner Art Cullen explains