You may not be aware of it, but when you purchase raw or processed chicken at the grocery store there’s a chance it’s brimming with salmonella. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates ...

On a brisk October morning, two pickup trucks ground to a stop and parked side by side on a Northwest Arkansas dirt road. Dan ...

On a brisk October morning, two pickup trucks ground to a stop and parked side by side on a Northwest Arkansas dirt road. Dan Douglas, a cattle and hay farmer whose family has farmed in Benton County ...

More than a dozen recently fired USDA employees told Investigate Midwest that mass terminations have stalled irrigation ...

Thousands of farmers and a dozen rural electric cooperatives wait for news about billions in funds under Trump administration ...

America’s dairy industry is being ravaged by bird flu, leading to a significant decline in milk production in many states, ...

This story was originally published by Grist. When Debbie Stabenow retired from Congress last year, she ended a 28-year run ...

The number of farms in America has long been on a steady decline, shrinking by 9.9% from 2012 to 2022, according to the USDA ...

Although farm loans appear unaffected by President Donald Trump’s funding freeze, the administration’s rollback of DEI ...

This story was originally published by Sentient. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Livestock Behavior Research Unit, the primary federal lab dedicated to farm animal welfare research, has been ...

This story was originally published by Grist. When Debbie Stabenow retired from Congress last year, she ended a 28-year run of advocating at the federal level for sustainable food systems. The ...

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