Is the U.S. chicken industry cheating its farmers?

The poultry industry has the potential to suppress farmers’ pay by using information from a secretive data-sharing company

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Media Partner

Are We Handling the Bee Crisis All Wrong?

HuffPost

Who should profit from Mexico’s nitrogen-fixing corn?

Yale Environment 360

One man is trying to save the world from climate change by mobilizing an unlikely team: Iowa’s farmers

Mother Jones

An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees

HuffPost

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

IPCC report warns that climate change threatens food supply

By ,  August 8, 2019

‘USDA’s bank’ keeps trade aid flowing to farmers

By ,  August 7, 2019

Is the U.S. chicken industry cheating its farmers?

August 5, 2019

With Costco chicken plant set to open, Nebraskans want more oversight of poultry farms

By ,  July 31, 2019

Wild bees outperform honeybees, but our farms don’t make them welcome

July 24, 2019

Who will reap the benefits of Mexico’s ‘miraculous’ nitrogen-fixing maize?

July 16, 2019

Brazil’s JBS wins a quarter of Trump-tariff contracts for pork

By ,  July 2, 2019

Food access in D.C.: Q&A with Ashanté Reese

By ,  July 1, 2019

Inside the movement to convert Iowa farmers into climate evangelists

June 28, 2019

Justice Dept. intervenes in major poultry price-fixing case

By ,  June 24, 2019

Looming crisis for almond industry, as bee census records highest winter losses yet

June 20, 2019

Enviva, a giant in wood pellets, shifts tree-sourcing policy

By ,  June 10, 2019

Editor’s Desk: A modern-day abolitionist – and the reporter covering her

Organic farming has a plastic problem. One solution is controversial.

NPR's The Salt

Fifty years later, a daunting cleanup of Vietnam’s toxic legacy

Yale Environment 360

The Loophole: How American forests fuel the EU’s appetite for ‘green’ energy

Weather.com

As oceans heat up, the types of seafood we eat will change

EatingWell

Toronto restaurant fights food waste by chopping menu prices till all the dishes are gone

NPR's The Salt

The herbicide dicamba is sparking a civil war in farm country

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Reveal

After mega-dairy was shut down, Oregon lawmakers consider a moratorium on new operations

The Oregonian

As the heat rises, farmworkers band together

The Nation

What pesticide monitoring misses

New Food Economy

As coastal flooding surges, ‘living shorelines’ seen as the answer

Scientific American

A lifeline for SNAP payments at farmers’ markets

Washington Post
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