Food & Agriculture

After Severe Drought and Storms, Ohio Farmers Fear for Long-Term Soil Health

By Anika Jane Beamer

Small New York Farms Suffer as Federal Funds Freeze

By Lauren Dalban

California Farmworker Communities Win the Right to Be Notified of Pesticide Applications in Advance

By Liza Gross

The Soybean Innovation Lab Is Set to Close in April After Trump Cuts

By Susan Cosier

The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago

By Georgina Gustin

Farmers and Community Groups Sue Trump and the USDA, Seeking Funds They Were Promised

By Georgina Gustin

In Florida, State Rules Concentrate Toxic Smoke in Underserved Communities

By Amy Green

Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine’s Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

Story and photos by Matilda Hay

USDA’s Purge of Climate Data is Illegal and Reckless, Doing Immediate Harm to Farmers, Lawsuit Alleges  

By Miranda Lipton

Farmworkers and Allies Stage Die-in at California Pesticide Hearing

By Liza Gross

To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa

By Wyatt Myskow

The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

New Mexico Lawmakers to Decide Whether Oil and Gas Wastewater Could Be Reused on Wide Scale

By Carrie Klein

Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture

By Georgina Gustin

Traditional Foods, and the Threats They Face, Take Center Stage at Navajo Summit

By Noel Lyn Smith

Texas Farmers Say Sewage-Based Fertilizer Tainted With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Poisoned Their Land and Killed Their Livestock

By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune