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Sri Lanka’s Organic Experiment Went Very, Very Wrong

Last year, the country implemented a countrywide ban on agrochemicals and fertilizers. It backfired—big time.

Shea Swenson
March 26, 2022
Oregon Becomes Eighth State to Pass Overtime Pay for Farmworkers

The state’s 86,000 agricultural workers, many of them migrant workers, will soon be entitled to... (more)

Shea Swenson
March 10, 2022
Proposed Hemp Bill Would Open Field Up to More Growers

The Hemp Advancement Act would enable people with prior drug convictions to participate in the... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
March 4, 2022
The Fight Over Healthy Soil

Norlin Mommsen is a third-generation farmer in Iowa, using techniques for raising corn and alfalfa... (more)

Kelley Griffin
May 3, 2021
Small Ranchers, Big Problems

When Rhiannon Hampson’s dairy herd births a male calf, she jumps on the phone that... (more)

Catie Joyce-Bulay
January 25, 2021
Soul Fire Farm Helps the Marginalized Grow Their Own Food

In the midst of a pandemic and unrest across the country, Ronyah Jackson takes comfort... (more)

Lindsay Campbell
June 7, 2020
This Year in Farming and Food

From trade wars to floods and droughts, 2019 has not been easy for many farmers.... (more)

Alex Robinson
December 29, 2019
OPINION: You Can’t Sit With Us

Over the past several years, I have become a well-known target within the online agricultural... (more)

Megan Brown
December 3, 2019
‘Adios Amor’ Unearths a Forgotten Face in the Farmworkers Movement

More than twenty years ago, when filmmaker Laurie Coyle stumbled across photos of an unknown... (more)

Lindsay Campbell
September 26, 2019