Food & Agriculture

In the face of lax enforcement by Biden’s Labor Department, labor organizations have stepped up to protect farmworkers

New York State and waste management entities promote the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer, but recent tests show high levels of PFAS pollution in water near sludge-spread fields

Federal funding for solar panels and wind turbines is being used to greenwash CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations)

Scientists warn that reducing our demand for meat is needed to mitigate climate change. Do insects provide the answer?

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