Agriculture

The ACLU of Iowa argues this law is no different than its predecessor, which was ruled unconstitutional this year.

Six states are restricting lawsuits against concentrated animal feeding operations in ways that will disproportionately affect low-income communities.

And other key takeaways from the latest Census of Agriculture.

North Dakota is the latest state to restrict the use of the term in food labeling to protect its livestock industry.

A new report finds that racial discrimination within USDA programs is responsible for this decline.

The presidential candidate proposes to fight industrial agriculture through reforms on mergers, checkoff programs, right-to-repair, and country-of-origin labels.

Scott Gottlieb, the current head of the FDA, recently announced his resignation, throwing the future of food regulation into question.

To get on track to achieve sustainability goals, the report outlines a series of changes to the global systems of food production, energy, and waste management.

The state's pork industry hasn't given up yet.

The Green New Deal's advocates may not be coming down on meat, but if they did, they wouldn't be the first.

A soybean farmer explains the challenges facing farmers if Trump's trade war continues.

In a state known for severe droughts, having a front yard that requires watering is becoming a thing of the past.

Ag-gag laws effectively criminalized undercover investigations for three decades, but now, the courts are turning the tide in favor of animal rights activists.

The millions of Americans who buy a Christmas tree at a farm this year are agritourists too.

Hog farms in North Carolina produce 10 billion gallons of untreated, toxic waste each year—and much of it ends up in the state's waterways.

After a fierce partisan fight, Congress has reached an agreement on SNAP, forestry, and conservation programs.

Secondary forests are vital parts of the ecosystem, but in Costa Rica many of them are re-cleared before achieving old-growth levels of biodiversity.

The world's population is expected to balloon to nearly 10 billion by midcentury.

Negotiators are one step closer to a bill funding crucial food assistance and agriculture programs.

To keep up crop production, farmers must continue to adjust to a warming climate.

The agency's new plan retains several key limitations on animal biotechnology, despite language promoting innovation.

Communities made up of fugitive slave descendants have been forced from their lands and denied their rights, a situation that may only get worse under newly elected president Jair Bolsonaro.

The Oregon drought this year is most striking because it covers many coastal areas known historically as some of the wettest in the country.

No, the state does not really have plenty of water.