The myth of the noble, independent grower keeps this nation from acknowledging that farming is simply a profession—and small farmers pay the price. In the media, the small family farm has been on the ...

Today, as power has consolidated in the pork industry and the number of market buyers has dwindled, so has the number of independent hog farmers. Many have become contract producers for integrators ...

Solanum jamesii, aka the Four Corners potato, has sustained Indigenous people in the American Southwest for 11,000 years; USDA is now studying its 8-year shelf life, and its resistance to disease, ...

This weekend, Niman Ranch and Native American Natural Foods (NANF), maker of the Tanka Bar, will announce a unique collaboration. The aim: to restore the buffalo to its revered place in Lakota society ...

Equine slaughter has been banned in America for over a decade. But the horse meat trade is still thriving. Last week, ten Utah county commissioners on a lobbying trip walked into the Washington, D.C.

In late May, the Small Business Administration stopped processing relief applications from women, veterans, and people of color. Then the agency started rescinding their approvals. When Kazu Fukumoto, ...

Phosphate rock allowed farmers to stop using manure fertilizer, kicking us into the modern era of agriculture. But those who live near the mining industry’s epicenter fear its huge towers of ...

The pandemic has changed what we mean by “restaurant” to include market hybrids, more take-out, less brick-and-mortar—and more restaurants that want to upend the hierarchy that defines dining out.

Indoor farming companies—like Kimbal Musk’s Square Roots—claim their methods can replicate any climate on earth, resulting in better-tasting produce. That story may be more marketing than science. It ...

The “Rust Belt Diner” genre of journalism isn’t new. But it has changed since 2016—underscoring the hardening of symbolic lines between an mythic “Real America” and the rest of the nation. If you’ve ...

“The fall is going to be an apocalypse for small farms.” Unlike the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) and other relief measures, the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) money is disbursed with ...

The ocean is changing faster than it has in the last 66 million years. Now, Oregon oysters are being farmed in Hawaii. That fix won't work forever. A little more than ten years ago, a mysterious ...