Scientists warned this weedkiller would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway.

The agency based its decision on 'shockingly insufficient' company studies. Now millions of dollars in soybeans and other crops have been destroyed.

Media Partner

These races will make or break the Blue Wave in farm country

Can Jess King flip the farmers of Lancaster County?

An Iowa Democrat hopes to win over farmers in a conservative Republican district

Mother Jones

‘Every Day You Become More Desperate’

Weather.com

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

FERN/Reveal investigation shows EPA ignored decades of science on dicamba drift

November 13, 2018

Big Ag tries to stifle debate on Minnesota mega-dairy expansion

By ,  November 8, 2018

House elections stamp expiration date on GOP ‘welfare reform in the farm bill’

By ,  November 7, 2018

Trump remains on top in farm country

By ,  November 7, 2018

California votes to go cage-free; Oregon and Washington State split on local soda taxes

November 7, 2018

In northwestern Iowa, King’s cruise to re-election hits a pothole

By ,  November 1, 2018

EPA would exempt CAFOs from right-to-know reporting of manure gases

October 31, 2018

Federal court finds Wyoming’s ag-gag laws unconstitutional

By ,  October 30, 2018

In CDC report on ‘fast food,’ Sweetgreen and McDonald’s are treated as equals

By ,  October 28, 2018

Will a Blue Wave hit farm country? These races will tell the tale.

October 22, 2018

Leah Penniman on her new book, ‘Farming While Black’

By ,  October 17, 2018

Climate change is forcing farmers to migrate from Central America

October 4, 2018

FERN’s Friday Feed: An insect Armageddon?

Editor’s Desk: FERN’s Essential Stories of 2018

A year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s farmers claw back

Net

India is awash in palm oil, and health takes a hit

The Nation

After a century’s absence, a glimmer of possibility for a native New York salmon

Adirondack Life

What is the farm bill and why does it matter?

Drinking problems: A Kansas farm town confronts a tap-water crisis

Harper’s Magazine

How’s organic farming faring in the farm bill?

Net

Editor’s Desk: Summer reading from FERN and its writers

Some food stamp recipients may soon lose access to farmers market benefits

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Washington Post

This little piggy went to market … and everything changed

Arkansas Life

This mine threatens America’s largest wild salmon run

Mother Jones
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