Farms

A worker installs a portion of a fence along the Danish border with Germany that is meant to stop wild boar from entering Denmark, on January 31st, 2019, near Tonder, Denmark.

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.

Amid hazardous air conditions in California, farm management is turning away volunteers attempting to hand out masks to farmworkers.

As fires clogged the air in Southern California, farmworkers continued to work, even as public-school students and others were told to stay home and indoors.

State agencies and environmental groups have recorded several breached or overflowing hog-waste pits and coal ash ponds—and the floodwaters are still rising.

The hog industry is changing, but, as Hurricane Florence hits, history may be doomed to repeat itself.

Due to a mix of factors around the issue there is a risk we may be moving toward a non-ideal situation for animals and humans alike.

The 2018 net farm income is predicted to reach $59.5 billion, a $4.3 billion decrease from 2017.

If the farm bill isn't renewed, the U.S. government will wind up paying farmers a pretty penny. But renewing the bill conflicts with President Trump's executive order for agency deregulation. What's Congress to do?

A White House task force calls for preserving bee habitat—but where are all the bees hanging out, and what are their living arrangements?

Only one movement has science to back it.

Millions have been spent on initiatives to eliminate food deserts, which are thought to contribute to the increasing incidence of diabetes and obesity in low-income areas. How are disadvantaged people faring in the middle of California, one of the nation's prime agricultural states?

Artificial insemination is much more efficient.

Buying a pig born to a humanely raised mama is harder than you’d think.

How have the farm animals of today been shaped by centuries of domestication and selective breeding? Sujata Gupta investigates.

The biological principle of xenohormesis suggests that organic farming advocates might very well be pampering their plants into nutritional laziness.

It’s frighteningly common for those who cover food issues to assume that smaller farms are safer farms. They may be happier, but they’re not necessarily healthier, as the recent spread of a devastating disease shows.