Helene dropped up to 30 inches of rain on southern Appalachia, causing historic flooding and landslides in parts of North ...

Will Runion’s 736-acre cattle and hay farm is tucked into a horseshoe bend of the Nolichucky River in northeast Tennessee. On ...

Across eastern Europe, foraging is a popular activity that allows people to enjoy time in nature. And in Ukraine, considered ...

Irina Zhorov is a freelance reporter who works in both text and audio. Her work has appeared on NPR, the Gravy podcast, High ...

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 ...

The USDA announced a one-time change on Thursday to its rules on harvesting forage and grazing livestock on prevented-planting cropland. The move was meant to assure there will be enough livestock ...

Americans have always been among the world’s most enthusiastic carnivores, but this boom is about more than mere preference ...

Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? If ...

If you avoid meat to cut down on animal cruelty, carbon emissions or both, your options are a lot better than they were a decade ago, which is to say they’re … fine. For people who can afford to pay a ...

Around 7 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2006, half a dozen buses and a small convoy of government vans quietly encircled the Swift & Company beef packinghouse on the northeast edge of Greeley, Colorado. It was just ...

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 ...

In January 2019, students at Lovin Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, took a hard look at how much food they were throwing away. It was Taco Day, and as lunch period wrapped up, teacher ...