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Food & Agriculture

How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution

A pact between the state and Smithfield Foods “failed miserably.” Those who worked on the agreement explain why.

By Lisa Sorg

Inside a CAFO that raises hogs for Smithfield Foods. Credit: Kathryn Gamble/The Washington Post via Getty Images
H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies equipment sits next to the Bar 20 dairy farm in Kerman, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

California Dairy Farm’s New Biogas Project Makes History and Raises Eyebrows

By Steven Rodas

Farmworkers tend to a strawberry field covered in plastic on Aug. 5, 2022, near Ventura, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic?

By Liza Gross

The CF Industries fertilizer complex in Donaldsonville, La. Credit: Emily Kask/The Washington Post via Getty Images

As Water Pollution Concerns Grow in Iowa, So Do Fertilizer Industry Profits

By Anika Jane Beamer

A former soybean field and six-acre earthen basin in Castana, Iowa, where a private developer planned to dump dehydrated manure from an out-of-town slaughterhouse. Credit: Scott Koepsell

Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Residents of Iowa’s Loess Hills

By Anika Jane Beamer

Legendary farmworker activist Dolores Huerta speaks at a press conference in Sacramento before a legislative oversight hearing on the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of confinement lots at Blackshirt Feeders in Dundy County, Nebraska. Credit: Sonya Doctorian/Inside Climate News

A Very American Invention, Pushed to an Extreme

By Georgina Gustin

Cows wait to be milked at a dairy farm in Hastings, Minn. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

A Minnesota Dairy Company’s Rapid Expansion Is Prompting Lawsuits Against Regulators

By Georgina Gustin

At the crux of the lawsuit is the permit’s lack of “representative monitoring” to detect the illegal entrance of pollutants into ground and surface water from CAFOs. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A New Oregon Permit for Industrial Farms Violates the Clean Water Act, Advocates Allege

By Claire Barber

The dry riverbed of the Rio Grande is seen next to pecan orchards in Radium Springs, N.M., before annual water releases began on May 30.

The Clock Is Ticking for New Mexico to Cut Rio Grande Water Use

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

The JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

The World’s Largest Meat Company Abandons Its Climate and Deforestation Goals

By Georgina Gustin

Drought and intruding salt water helped turn this former rice field in Gambia into a “wet desert.” Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

In Gambia, Salt Water Intrusion Is the Leading Edge of Climate Change

By Phred Dvorak

Fishing boats are moored in the harbor on March 2, 2026, in Lyme Regis, England.

Despite Decades of Warnings, British Fish Stocks Are Collapsing

By Johnny Sturgeon

Planada residents David and Rita Rodriguez are concerned over expansion plans from a nearby dairy farm in Le Grand, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Dairy Farms’ Expansion Plan Worries California Families Who Once Had a ‘Little Piece of Heaven’

By Steven Rodas

Cows graze in a deforested area of the Colombian Amazon. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia Passes First-Ever National Law Requiring Beef to Be Traced Back to Its Origins

By Georgina Gustin

Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Minnesota’s Rice Lake in September 2017. Credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Wild Rice Faces Numerous Threats—and Has Determined Protectors

By Susan Cosier

Matthew Bormann, a fifth-generation farmer, is one-third of a trio of growers in Iowa’s flat and fertile Des Moines Lobe. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

A Kashmiri farmer spreads synthetic fertilizer around an apple orchard on May 23 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Credit: Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Iran War Jeopardizes Global Food Security

By Madeline Shaw

Bison graze at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden

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