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Food & Agriculture

There Are 10 Million Tons of Manure Missing in California

Stanford researchers found serious loopholes in factory farm regulation—and it’s not just in California.

Seth Millstein, Sentient

Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a large California dairy.
Cows wait to be milked at a dairy farm in Escalon, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Water Board Will Soon Release a New Rule to Limit Water Pollution From Dairies in the State

By Blanca Begert

Brenda Schwab moved to Rowland in November 2024. She’s been sampling waterways in the area because she is concerned about waste from CAFOs potentially entering creeks and swamps. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.

By Lisa Sorg

Cows graze the land at Gut und Bösel, a more than 2,000-acre farm just outside Berlin in Alt Madlitz, Brandenburg. Credit: Aram Zucker-Scharff

On the Farm, the Hidden Climate Cost of the Broken U.S. Health Care System

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

Farmers use a self-driving tractor to sow wheat on a farm in Zhangye, China. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

The Farming Industry Has Embraced ‘Precision Agriculture’ and AI, but Critics Question Its Environmental Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

Soybeans are harvested at a farm in Montividiu, Goias, Brazil. Credit: Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images

Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock

By Georgina Gustin

A grain elevator is surrounded by floodwater from the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois border in 2023. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Iowa’s Water Crisis Could Help Tip the Scales for Control of US House

By Anika Jane Beamer

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

Corn grows on a farm near Clinton, Wis. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Local Barley Becomes Local Booze at a Wisconsin Distillery Prioritizing Ag Sustainability

By Sarah Mattalian

Cattle are seen at a dairy farm in Porterville, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

California Explores First-Time Regulation on Dairy Methane Emissions

By Blanca Begert

Taylor Register, a water quality specialist with Sound Rivers, samples water from a ditch near White Oaks Farm in North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Krop

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

A compost bin sits outside a building in Queens, New York City. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Composting Fines for Buildings Are Back on in New York City

By Lauren Dalban

Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution

By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer

An American kestrel. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

On Michigan Cherry Farms, Small Falcons Are Improving Food Safety

By K.R. Callaway

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lander County, Nevada. Credit: Jim West/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses new dietary guidelines during a news briefing at the White House on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Reversing Years of Dietary Advice, the Trump Administration Tells Consumers to Eat More Red Meat

By Georgina Gustin

Sheep graze in front of the Woolverton Inn in Stockton, New Jersey. Credit: Jumping Rocks/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Network Blooms to Connect Fiber Farmers With Fabric Artisans

By Raeanne Raccagno

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A cornfield in Ohio. Credit: H2Ohio

Ohio Farmers Say Regenerative Agriculture Methods Helped Them Survive a Drought. State and Federal Leaders Are Slashing Programs That Fund Them.

By Michael Riojas

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