Four people on dairy farms have contracted the disease, but small farms exist in a regulatory no-man’s-land.

House Republicans’ farm bill includes a provision reversing a California law promoting more humane housing conditions for livestock. Opponents say the law infringes on other states’ prerogatives.

Driscoll’s is an empire—one that depends on genetic patents and large infusions of water and pesticides.

Wait until you hear this state senator’s argument for killing the legislation.

Why paying more for eggs could save us from another pandemic

These turkeys are miserable. These apples are threatened by fire blight. These decorative gourds are hiding the truth.

This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses.

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

The Biden administration must not only curb emissions. It also has to move swiftly to issue its planned OSHA regulation limiting the heat exposure that kills more workers every year.

The Roberts court deals a blow to California farmworkers’ ability to organize, in a ruling that may have dire implications for unions and regulators.

On junk food, cash crops, Oatly, and how to fix what’s broken in our food system

The American Farm Bureau Federation has recast itself as a climate warrior, pushing for private offset markets relying on the fraught science of soil sequestration.

Biden’s pick for agriculture secretary brings stale solutions to growing crises like climate change and labor inequality.

As blazes devour California and Oregon, farmworkers are risking their lives by showing up for the harvest. What other choice do they have?

A nifty name and a sleek aesthetic can’t hide the fact that the wealthy are just rehashing centuries-old exploitative labor practices.

Leaving essentials like food and shelter to the whims of the market produces an extreme kind of disorganization.

U.S. senators, McDonald's, Microsoft, and the agribusiness lobby are pushing the dangerous myth that carbon storage in American farmland will stave off climate catastrophe.

Massive companies like Amazon, Google, Pfizer, and Uber don’t merely dominate an industry: They dominate our lives.

The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on milk sales, the seasonal labor force, restaurant contracts, and more.

The militant vegans who rushed Biden’s victory speech are trying to be heard amid a cacophony of tiny interest groups.