FARMING

Registering a new Latinx voter in Iowa.

Get Out the Vote Efforts in Farm Country Are Reaching Young, Latinx, and Rural Voters

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10.27.20

Two happy pigs running around outside without a gestation crate in sight.

Could Crate-Free Pork Become the New Industry Standard?

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10.26.20

Shopping for groceries during the pandemic. (Photo CC-licensed by the City of St. Petersburg)

The Pandemic Has Given Organics a Big Boost—but Most Profits Aren’t Flowing to Small Producers

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10.23.20

Site manager Eileen Bowman wears a "REGISTER & VOTE" mask as long lines of voters wait to cast early voting ballots at Roxborough High School on October 17, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Fighting Voter Suppression, Environmental Racism, and Corporate Agriculture in Hog Country

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10.22.20

A butcher sells local meat at a farmers market

The Pandemic Has the Potential to Finally Transform Meat Processing in the U.S.

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10.19.20

Nicole Virgil in her backyard garden.

Without a ‘Right to Garden’ Law, It May Be Illegal to Grow Your Own Food

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10.16.20

Walking through a field of Kernza. (Photo credit: Jacob Jungers)

Can the Climate-Friendly Grain Kernza Finally Hit the Big Time?

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10.15.20

West Coast wildfires turn the skies orange over the Iverson Famil Farms vineyards. (Photo courtesy of Iverson Family Farms)

What Impacts Do the West Coast Wildfires, Smoke Have on Crops?

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10.13.20

A hand holding healthy soils with a worm inside on a farm.

Op-ed: ‘Kiss the Ground’ Misses the Complexity of Climate Solutions in the Soil

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10.08.20

A Hmong farmer picking crops in the farm field. (Photo credit Mike Hazard / HAFA)

Hmong Farmers Are Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement in Minnesota

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10.07.20

A farmer stands in his cornfield wearing a mask because he's not a covid-19 coronavirus denier

A Deep Divide on COVID, and Masks, in Farm Country

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10.05.20

young farmers working on their regenerative agriculture field to sequester carbon dioxide and reduce their emissions

Does Overselling Regenerative Ag’s Climate Benefits Undercut its Potential?

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10.01.20

A woman plants seedlings as part of a partnership with the MST. (Photo credit: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil)

Brazil’s Landless Workers Persist through Agroecology

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09.30.20

agtech automation TX harvester advanced.farm

The Robots are Coming to Harvest Your Food. What Will it Mean for Farmworkers and Rural Communities?

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09.29.20

Elizabeth DeRuff of Honoré Farm and Mill holds a bundle of freshly harvested local wheat for processing.

Civil Eats TV: Cultivating Sacred Grains for the Bread of Life

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09.28.20

A hand holding healthy soil from a regenerative agriculture operation. Gonna trade those carbon credits on the carbon market...

Are Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype?

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09.24.20

A flock of free range regenerative livestock graze in a field in the Bay Area

Ranchers Form Co-Op to Address Meat Processing Bottleneck

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09.23.20

A farmer walks among trees on the healthy soil at his farm. Photo courtesy of Kiss the Ground.

New Soil Documentary Promises a Powerful Solution to the Growing Effects of Climate Change

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09.22.20