By Theodore Ross Our latest story at FERN, published in partnership with The New Yorker, examines a little-known population ...

Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a ...

In Rawmarsh, the Rotherham-adjacent village where I grew up, food choices [in the early 2000s] still tended towards the ...

In early February, more than 1,000 Haitian migrants employed at the unionized JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, faced imminent deportation, as the Trump administration fought in ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

In the U.S., the dinner plate-sized Dropcopter drone can now be seen releasing dry pollen from what looks like a WW2 aircraft ...

The high cost of beef is probably not breaking news for most readers of this newsletter. We see it in the stores and feel it in our wallets. I bought ground chuck for burgers last week at my (always ...

Last month, with great fanfare, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled the new dietary guidelines for Americans. The advice was muddled—eat more meat but not more saturated fat!—and likely shaped by the very ...

But the changes to the H-2A visa backed by the Trump administration won't solve farmers' labor problem, and will make the serious health and safety issues that farmworkers face even worse. Shortly ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these ...