Chlorpyrifos Will No Longer Be Allowed on Food Crops
- Data Covid-19 USA — The agency will reverse a Trump-era decision to keep chlorpyrifos, one of the most common pesticides, in use.
How to Make a Neighborhood Farm for an Entire Metropolis
- Data Covid-19 USA — A program being started in Atlanta helps midsize farmers buy their own land while providing much-needed fresh food to urban consumers.
This Holiday Season: Cows, Goats and Buffaloes Delivered to Your Door
Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, farmers and families in Bangladesh have turned to online marketplaces to buy and sell millions of animals for sacrifice during the festival of Eid al-Adha.
How Reporting About Food Led to a Story About Slavery
After the correspondent Kim Severson came across the disturbing roots of a family farm, the pandemic provided what she needed most to find out more: time.
How Climate Change Hit Wine Country
If any nook of American agriculture has the means and incentive to outwit the climate crisis, it is Napa Valley. But so far, vineyards here show the limits of adapting to a warming planet.
U.K. Food Review Calls for a Tax on Sugar and Salt
The tax on salt and sugar in processed and restaurant-made foods was among several measures proposed in a sweeping review into England’s food industry.
On This German Farm, Cows Are in Charge. Or at Least Coequals.
The cows don’t have to produce milk. The pigs sleep late. No animal on this former dairy farm serves a human need. Their only purpose is to live peacefully — and provoke questions about how […]
Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?
Stacie Marshall, who inherited a Georgia farm, is trying on a small scale to address a generations-old wrong that still bedevils the nation.
It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?
A California farmer decides it makes better business sense to sell his water than to grow rice. An almond farmer considers uprooting his trees to put up solar panels. Drought is transforming the state, with […]
Biden’s Push for Equity in Government Hits Legal and Political Roadblocks
No part of President Biden’s agenda has been as ambitious as his attempt to place concerns about equity squarely at the center of the federal government’s decision-making
Supreme Court Rules Against Union Recruiting on California Farms
The case concerned a unique state regulation allowing labor representatives to meet with farm workers at their workplaces for up to three hours a day for as many as 120 days a year.
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