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Inside La Morada. (Photo by Vidha Kotahwala via Google)

At a Beloved Mexican Restaurant in the Bronx, an Arrest Sparks Outrage

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01.18.19
a chart showing the seed industry monopoly in 2018

The Sobering Details Behind the Latest Seed Monopoly Chart

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01.11.19
Farmer drives a combine in Midwest grain field to harvest mature corn. Photo by Phil Rozenski, Shiloh, IL

As a New Congress Takes Office, it’s Time to Hit the Pause Button on Big Ag Mergers

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01.04.19
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Our Readers Respond: The Year in Food and Farming

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12.28.18
students receiving school lunch in a cafeteria

Making Healthy School Lunches Free for All Should Be a National Priority

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12.14.18

Congress Will Likely Legalize Hemp in the Farm Bill. It Should Also Heal the USDA’s History of Discrimination.

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12.07.18
pollinators on the edge of a field

Hold the Soy, Save the Pollinators

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11.30.18
Entrance to the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on January 6, 2017. Photo credit: 7Michael on iStock.

This Thanksgiving, Try Something New: Decolonize Your Mind

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11.22.18

Election Day Cake: A Recipe to Help Rebuild Our Democracy

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11.06.18

From a Family of Farmers, Paulette Jordan Hopes to Be the Nation’s First Native American Governor

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10.26.18
gabe brown and the dirt to soil book cover

The Trouble with Farm Subsidies

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10.04.18
nikiko on her family farm. Photo by Gosia Wozniacka

Returning to My Family Farm is About More Than Succession. It’s About Story.

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09.17.18
Lechugueros often begin their days at one or two in the morning, crossing the border at San Luis Río Colorado and heading into the fields. Photo © Scott Baxter.

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

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09.03.18
Management intensive rotational grazing of beef cattle is one example of a conservation practice incentivized by CSP. Here, the author moves cows at the Michigan State University AgBioResearch Center in Lake City, Michigan. (Photo credit: Paige Stanley)

What Congress Does Next on the Farm Bill Could Cost Farmers and Taxpayers Billions

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08.31.18
Migrant workers harvesting sweet potatoes in Mechanicsville, VA. (Photo credit: USDA)

Healthy Soil is Ground Zero for Environmental Justice in Farm Communities

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08.17.18
Wendell Berry

Renewing a Vision for Rural Prosperity

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08.15.18
Dewayne Johnson

The Man Who Fought Monsanto Will Leave a Lasting Legacy

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08.13.18
Iowa Farm photo CC-licensed by Don Graham

Why the Midwest’s Food System is Failing

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08.03.18