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![compactor machine on top of pile of waste at landfill with large flock of seagulls flying above]()
![compactor machine on top of pile of waste at landfill with large flock of seagulls flying above]()
An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it.
The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.
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![President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins]()
![President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins]()
Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days
The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened.
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![aerial view of an irrigation canal running through an almond orchard in California's Central Valley]()
![aerial view of an irrigation canal running through an almond orchard in California's Central Valley]()
How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained
Agriculture requires a lot of water. In the drought-stricken Central Valley, researchers have found a win-win for growers.
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Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
In California's water-stressed Central Valley, farmers are fallowing land and installing solar, providing financial stability and saving water.
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![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
Trump’s latest USDA cuts undermine his plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
The abrupt cancellation of a beloved farm-to-school grant program threatens food access, school gardens, and small farms nationwide.
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![close-up of a student holding a carton of milk]()
Whole, skim, or soy? The congressional battle over milk in school lunches.
Offering kids nondairy milk could be a climate solution. No one's talking about it that way.
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How baby chickens became America’s hottest commodity
Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks.
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![Farmers plant rice seedlings by hand in the terraced paddy fields]()
![Farmers plant rice seedlings by hand in the terraced paddy fields]()
The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.
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New York City is making people compost — or pay up
New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.
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![Farm equipment in front of a raised bed of dirt with solar panels in the background.]()
![Farm equipment in front of a raised bed of dirt with solar panels in the background.]()
The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language
The agency is finally moving on getting gridlocked money to farmers. But at what cost?
