The upcoming deliberations over the farm bill will consume a considerable amount of lawmakers’—and lobbyists’—time.

How the so-called virtual water trade affects the Colorado River

Fixing our dysfunctional food system as the planet warms will be very hard. But one easy thing is staring us right in the face.

Balmy days in February can cost us big down the road. Just ask a farmer.

Why paying more for eggs could save us from another pandemic

These turkeys are miserable. These apples are threatened by fire blight. These decorative gourds are hiding the truth.

Borrowing a page from the fossil fuel industry’s playbook, meat’s “merchants of doubt” are funding questionable research and lobbying to keep meat reduction off the table.

The financial struggles of companies like Beyond Meat are further proof that we can’t rely on alternative proteins to create a sustainable food system. We must forcibly shrink Big Meat.

Global hunger is rising amid war, inflation, and a pandemic—but it’s not because of a lack of food.

It’s past time to green the nation’s agriculture. But spending on biofuels and seaweed additives is the wrong way to do that.

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

I was a corn detasseler as a teenager. But increasingly weird weather patterns are making the timing of this crucial task harder and harder to predict.

Amid a labor resurgence in the U.S., farmworkers struggle to recoup the momentum their movement once had.

The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.

It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.

Can meat grown in a laboratory help save the planet? And if it can, what’s standing in our way?

The Biden administration must not only curb emissions. It also has to move swiftly to issue its planned OSHA regulation limiting the heat exposure that kills more workers every year.

Panic over California’s pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.

Small tweaks to the meat industry can’t save Americans from a simple truth: We need to eat less meat.