As California wildfires rage, the harvest goes on

Advocates worry about farmworkers who were in Sonoma County vineyards during the LNU Lightning Complex fire.

Media Partner

After a farmworker in rural Texas died of complications from Covid-19, his family and federal investigators want answers

Texas Observer

At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on race

Mother Jones

How do climate change, migration and a deadly sheep disease alter our understanding of pandemics?

Ensia

Can grazing save endangered grasslands?

The Guardian

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs was rising before pandemic

By ,  October 20, 2020

Book: Climate change and the looming crisis in U.S. food production

By ,  October 19, 2020

School meal programs have lost more than $483 million so far during the pandemic

By ,  October 15, 2020

Pilgrim’s to pay $110.5 million fine in U.S. price-fixing investigation

By ,  October 14, 2020

Advocates fear canceling Farm Labor Survey is first step in gutting guest farmworker protections

By ,  October 12, 2020

Nitrate-tainted drinking water plagues California farmworker towns, study shows

By ,  October 7, 2020

How high could farm subsidies go? $40 billion this year.

By ,  October 5, 2020

Advocates push to make WIC waivers permanent

By ,  October 1, 2020

Opinion: How land — and the way we use it — is at the center of the climate crisis

By ,  September 30, 2020

When the West Coast wildfires are out, can mushrooms help with the cleanup?

By ,  September 27, 2020

Study: U.S. commodity farmers imperil biodiversity for ever-lower yields

By ,  September 24, 2020

Picking grapes during California wildfires

September 22, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: How hops rescued American beer

Editor’s Desk — Why a farmworker perished from Covid-19

FERN’s Friday Feed: A pandemic who-done-it

Editor’s Desk — FERN’s biodiversity initiative

Pandemic and protest in a meatpacking town

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Latino USA

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

As Covid-19 rises, Alaskans crowd rivers to stock up on wild salmon

As Covid-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers

Univision

FERN’s commitment to equity and diversity

Covid-19 shows no sign of slowing among food-system workers

The pandemic is just the latest threat faced by refugee food workers in Texas

Texas Observer

With thousands of seafood workers coming to Alaska, state tries to contain Covid-19

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