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![a close-up shot of a red button on a blue button-down shirt that says "I'm a farmer and support Prop 12"]()
![a close-up shot of a red button on a blue button-down shirt that says "I'm a farmer and support Prop 12"]()
States want transparent laws around animal agriculture. A fight in Congress could derail that.
The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.
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![man holding a sign that reads President Trump make commercial fishing great again]()
![man holding a sign that reads President Trump make commercial fishing great again]()
Trump wants to unleash ‘America First’ fishing. What’s he really doing?
As the administration dismantles guardrails for industrial fishing, it's also threatening critical marine ecosystems that are sacred to Indigenous Pacific peoples.
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![farmland with silos and cows]()
![farmland with silos and cows]()
Georgia is losing farmland fast. Is a state conservation fund enough to save it?
A development rush is expected to convert 10 percent of farmland into housing or industrial sites over the next 15 years.
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![A farmer wearing a blue hat, blue zip-up jacket, and black track pants walks in front of his corn crop in Harare, Zimbabwe]()
![A farmer wearing a blue hat, blue zip-up jacket, and black track pants walks in front of his corn crop in Harare, Zimbabwe]()
The ‘super El Niño’ is here. What happens next could upend food systems worldwide.
How the cyclical weather pattern interacts with climate change could spark hunger around the world.
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This unfathomably huge fungal network keeps Earth cool and green
Spanning 110 quadrillion kilometers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are critical allies of plants. They also transport an enormous amount of planet-warming carbon.
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Becoming a farmer is hard. This Michigan program wants to help.
“Nobody gets into farming for sane reasons, other than the sanity of knowing where your food comes from,” said one student at the Great Lakes Incubator Farm, which gives aspiring farmers a place to experiment without risk.
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![an illustration of a field irrigated with pools in the shape of a cow cut up into parts a la butcher diagram]()
![an illustration of a field irrigated with pools in the shape of a cow cut up into parts a la butcher diagram]()
Blood in the well: One town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it
Residents of a Pennsylvania town took on a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. They won — but little may change.
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![U.S. President Donald Trump is joined by grocery store owners and supermarket in the Oval Office]()
![U.S. President Donald Trump is joined by grocery store owners and supermarket in the Oval Office]()
No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill
The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it'll only make things pricier.
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![Collage of Brooke Rollins and an aerial view of a dam]()
![Collage of Brooke Rollins and an aerial view of a dam]()
Why is this Trump official dead set on saving a failing California dam?
Brooke Rollins’s latest culture war crusade threatens a delicate compromise between Potter Valley farmers and nearby tribes.
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![Brooke Rollins standing in front of a wooden seal of the USDA]()
![Brooke Rollins standing in front of a wooden seal of the USDA]()
The USDA canceled $300M in farm grants, citing fraud. Did it make up the evidence?
The agency pointed to gazebos, massages, and a $20,000 budget for pens to justify the cuts. But the groups that lost funding say those claims don't add up.
