As midterms approach, West Virginia residents describe the impact of the past two years of the Trump administration on the ...

After a scramble to replace lost federal dollars, West Virginia farmers are facing high costs and growing need.

The money will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in a bid to offset high costs of fuel that have hurt many farmers across the country. Republicans are facing political ...

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

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

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

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.

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

Hurricane Polo’s rapid formation into a category 5 storm off the coast of Mexico this week is a harbinger of the violent weather that the “super El Niño” storm season, currently brewing in the ...

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On a chilly evening this past spring, Megan Humphrey welcomed more than 60 of her neighbors, some of whom she had never met, to dinner at her home in the Old North End of Burlington, Vermont. Expand ...

Last month, California became the second state, after Vermont, to ban the weedkiller and crop desiccant paraquat. The widely used pesticide is extremely toxic; a teaspoon of it can kill you. Needless ...