The agency says the effort will bolster seed sovereignty and food security, but advocates say it doesn’t adequately address ...

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According to a new analysis, ground beef prices at the grocery store have only come down by 2 percent, but prices paid to beef producers decreased more than 12 percent.

How the daughter of author Wendell Berry and executive director of the Berry Center advocates for agrarian ideals.

Conservation efforts like this one in Chicago can help prevent the loss of land that is currently stymying small farming.

For decades, Willapa Bay kept native shrimp in check with pesticides that are now banned. New solutions have been hard to ...

Activist Robin Greenfield just spent the past year living off the land ‘to break free from the global industrial system.’ ...

On August 20, 2025, two workers were trying to repair the manure management system in the enclosed underground pump room of Prospect Valley Dairy in Keenesburg, Colorado, when a pipe disconnected, ...

The agency has concluded its investigation into a cyclospora outbreak that sickened a record number of Americans this summer.

Back in the 1990s, when Craig Watts was still raising chickens for Perdue, the fourth largest poultry company in the U.S., his contract included a provision that prohibited him from sharing the ...

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Ramona Reyes Saucedo was getting containers of a pesticide called Virkon S ready to be sprayed in greenhouses at Mastronardi Farms in Coldwater, Michigan, when she started to get sick. “I had burning ...