The middle of the country’s reputation for bland food completely ignores our Indigenous peoples,” write Sean Sherman and Mecca Bos. “Within this core of America, dismissed by some as ‘flyover ...

If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity. Many menus in rural and small-town middle America ...

By Theodore Ross What is the heartland, anyway? That’s a question that comes up a lot at FERN, because it cuts to the … heart … of the journalism we do on food and the environment. Our ...

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, ...

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, ...

The Biden administration allotted $5.7 billion for climate mitigation work through USDA's conservation programs in the coming 12 months, double the amount offered in the just-ended fiscal year. There ...

A new regulation will restore so-called application exclusion zones intended to protect farmworkers and other people from exposure to pesticides as they are being applied, said the Environmental ...

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, ...

A new regulation will restore so-called application exclusion zones intended to protect farmworkers and other people from exposure to pesticides as they are being applied, said the Environmental ...

The Biden administration allotted $5.7 billion for climate mitigation work through USDA’s conservation programs in the coming 12 months, double the amount offered in the just-ended fiscal year. There ...

Farmer confidence tumbled by 21 percent in the past two months to its lowest level since 2016, with three of every four farmers saying they expect bad times for the agricultural economy in the year ...