A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots

And regulators aren't doing anything about it.

Media Partner

As the Salton Sea shrinks, it leaves behind a toxic reminder of the cost of making a desert bloom

Weather.com

Here are the rural residents who sued the world’s largest hog producer over waste and odors – and won.

The Nation

A breathtaking lack of oversight for air emissions from animal farms

The Nation

Are ‘forever chemicals’ in our milk? Nobody really knows.

HuffPost

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Jury orders Monsanto, BASF to pay peach farmer $250 million in punitive damages

By ,  February 17, 2020

Although it’s still small, interest in plant-based diets is growing, says survey

By ,  February 13, 2020

Consolidation and climate change threaten U.S. fisheries, say FERN panelists

By ,  February 11, 2020

Missouri peach farmer testifies about alleged dicamba damage

By ,  February 6, 2020

Al Gore promotes carbon markets, regenerative agriculture at D.C. conference

By ,  February 5, 2020

Texas Panhandle community chokes on fecal dust from feedlots

February 3, 2020

‘Nobody wants another Flint, Michigan,’ judge tells Smithfield in hog-case appeal hearing

By ,  January 31, 2020

Monsanto officials limited dicamba weedkiller testing, court testimony shows

By ,  February 2, 2020

Across the country, a call grows for moratoriums on huge livestock farms

By ,  January 26, 2020

Young farmers face heightened risks from climate change

By ,  January 21, 2020

In Minnesota, study finds drinking water tainted with nitrates

By ,  January 14, 2020

As the Salton Sea shrinks, a toxic mess looms

January 13, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: Is the poke explosion sustainable?

It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas.

Texas Observer

Editor’s Desk: Is U.S. seafood sustainable?

Arizona’s water supplies are drying up. How will its farmers survive?

National Geographic

Food scholarships. Homeless shelters. Emergency loans.

The Nation

FERN needs your help.

The strange, uncertain fate of Alaska’s biggest wild salmon habitat

The Nation

Today’s special: Grilled salmon laced with plastic

Mother Jones

For years, complaints about North Carolina’s hog pollution vanished in state bureaucracy

The Guardian

Down on the smart farm

EatingWell

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

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The Guardian

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

Mother Jones
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