Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 4 million readers a year200k social reach Yale Environment 360 A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Under the Partnerships...
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Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 6.4 million pageviews per month The New Republic In mid-July in Phoenix, a man demonstrated to a local news station how to cook steak on the dashboard of his car. The...
View ArticleSolos en la pradera
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos,...
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Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos,...
View ArticleA tell-tale tragedy
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 70,000 pageviews a month Investigate Midwest By the time the sun came up over the rolling green hills of Harrells, North Carolina, on June 23, 2021, a charred metal...
View ArticleTom Colicchio: A chef’s journey
This article is part of FERN’s series Switchyard-FERN Special Food Issue 2023 Buzzkill By Dan Charles, December 18, 2023 Tell me why the watermelon grows By Jori Lewis, December 4, 2023 What good is...
View ArticleA conversation with The Sioux Chef
This article is part of FERN’s series Switchyard-FERN Special Food Issue 2023 Buzzkill By Dan Charles, December 18, 2023 Tell me why the watermelon grows By Jori Lewis, December 4, 2023 What good is...
View ArticleWhat good is beef?
This article is part of FERN’s series Switchyard-FERN Special Food Issue 2023 Buzzkill By Dan Charles, December 18, 2023 Tell me why the watermelon grows By Jori Lewis, December 4, 2023 What good is...
View ArticleTell me why the watermelon grows
This article is part of FERN’s series Switchyard-FERN Special Food Issue 2023 Buzzkill By Dan Charles, December 18, 2023 Tell me why the watermelon grows By Jori Lewis, December 4, 2023 What good is...
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This article is part of FERN’s series Switchyard-FERN Special Food Issue 2023 Buzzkill By Dan Charles, December 18, 2023 Tell me why the watermelon grows By Jori Lewis, December 4, 2023 What good is...
View ArticleCan $3 billion persuade Black farmers to trust the USDA?
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 44m weekly audience across platforms NPR The Biden administration’s $3.1 billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and...
View ArticleEthanol is just comically inefficient solar energy
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 6.4 million pageviews per month The New Republic For all the backbiting and vitriol, the main candidates in the recent Iowa GOP presidential caucus agreed on a lot of...
View ArticleWant farmers to protect the environment?
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 million web readers a month2 million social users a month Mother Jones This article is part of FERN’s series The Farm Bill Fight The essential workers missing from...
View ArticleWhen must-pass meets mega-partisan
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 million web readers a month2 million social users a month Mother Jones This article is part of FERN’s series The Farm Bill Fight The essential workers missing from...
View ArticleWhy are GOP governors taking food out of the mouths of poor kids?
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 million web readers a month2 million social users a month Mother Jones When I spoke to Mandi Remington in late January, she had $7 in her bank account and had run out...
View ArticleThe farm bill hall of shame
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 million web readers a month2 million social users a month Mother Jones This article is part of FERN’s series The Farm Bill Fight The essential workers missing from...
View ArticleTribal nations want more control over their food supply
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 million web readers a month2 million social users a month Mother Jones This article is part of FERN’s series The Farm Bill Fight The essential workers missing from...
View ArticleGrowing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 6.4 million pageviews per month The New Republic Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling....
View ArticleThe essential workers missing from the farm bill
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 million web readers a month2 million social users a month Mother Jones This article is part of FERN’s series The Farm Bill Fight The essential workers missing from...
View ArticleThe ranching industry’s toxic grass problem
Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 170 MILLION MONTHLY UNIQUE VIEWERS GLOBALLY Grist This article is part of FERN’s series The Biodiversity Crisis The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert...
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