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A farmer loads vegetables into his van to deliver from his farm to a farmers' market. (Photo credit: Tom Werner, Getty Images)

Will Congress Pass a New Farm Bill in 2025?

January 8, 2025

The critically important legislation got another last-minute extension in December, but farmers, advocates, and eaters alike all want to know what the new year will bring for ag policy.

Project 2025 Calls for Major Cuts to the US Nutrition Safety Net

August 28, 2024

A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City. Earlier that week, the Trump administration announced stricter requirements for food stamps benefits that would have cut support for nearly 700,000 poor Americans. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

Tim Walz’s Bipartisan Approach to Agriculture and Conservation

By Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News

August 19, 2024

Photo courtesy of Time Walz, Facebook

Pesticide Industry Could Win Big in Latest Farm Bill Proposal

May 29, 2024

In ‘Barons,’ Austin Frerick Takes on the Most Powerful Families in the Food System

By Twilight Greenaway

March 26, 2024

author austin frerick and the cover of barons, his new book about corporate consolidation, monopolies, food systems, and more. (Author photo by Kris Graves)

Should a Plan to Curb Meat Industry Water Pollution Consider the Business Costs?

February 5, 2024

(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

WIC Shortfall Could Leave 2 Million Women And Children Hungry

January 24, 2024

These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies That Support Regenerative Agriculture

January 23, 2024

A farmer tends a mobile chicken coop at Letterbox Farm, a diversified, organic farm in Hudson, New York. (Photo credit: Preston Keres, USDA)

Op-ed: This Farm Bill Could Rein in Big Agriculture’s Lobbying Power

January 17, 2024

Ranchers supervise grazing grass-fed cattle. (Photo courtesy of White Oak Pastures)

Our Best Farming and Farm Bill Reporting of 2023

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 26, 2023

Farmer Caiti Hachmyer plants dry corn at Red-H Farm in Sebastopol, California. (Photo credit: Brooke Porter Photography)

Op-ed: Beginning Farmers Are at a Crossroads. Here’s How the Next Farm Bill Can Help.

December 14, 2023

a young farmer working alone in the field hoping for help from the next farm bill

Global Leaders Bypass Real Agriculture Reform Again at COP28 Climate Summit

December 12, 2023

Participants at the UN COP28 Climate Summit during a session on farmers and traditional producers. (Photo CC-licensed by the UNFCCC)

Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

By Mary-Rose Abraham

December 11, 2023

A tractor rollover accident with a farm tractor on its side in a ditch.

Animal Welfare Advocates Want a Say in the Next Farm Bill

November 6, 2023

Photo courtesy of Farm Sanctuary

Op-ed: Farmers Want Climate Resilience, but GOP Lawmakers Want to Redirect Billions in Conservation Funds

By Wendy Johnson

October 12, 2023

Farmer Hannah Bernhardt. Photo credit: Wendy Johnson

GOP Lawmakers Move to Block New Animal Welfare Standards in Organic

September 26, 2023

a female farmer stands in the field with her organically raised sheep and looks off at the distance, wondering why congress would try to kill the Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards rule.

How Crop Insurance Prevents Some Farmers From Adapting to Climate Change

September 20, 2023

Organic farmers grow radishes as cover crops. (Photo credit: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Cover Crop Image database)

Op-ed: Big Ag Touts Its Climate Strengths, While Awash in Fossil Fuels

By Peter Lehner

September 14, 2023

Changes to WIC Benefits Would Cut Food Access for Millions of Parents

September 12, 2023

A young parent feeds an infant food that they bought using their WIC benefit.

Climate Change Threatens the Agritourism That Helps Small Farms Survive

By Tove Danovich

September 6, 2023

This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.

August 9, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 19: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) (C) chairs a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry subcommittee hearing to examine the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other nutrition assistance programs in the Farm Bill in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Fetterman returned to the Senate this week after checking himself into Walter Reed Military Medical Center in February for inpatient treatment of clinical depression, a result of a severe stroke he suffered during his senate campaign last year. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

‘Big Sugar’ Podcast Exposes How Subsidies in the Farm Bill Harm Us All

August 8, 2023

celeste headlee and the cover image of the podcast

Congress Puts Federal Support for Urban Farming on the Chopping Block

August 7, 2023

Falani Spivey at the Urban Incubator Farm. (Photo credit: Lisa Held)

Threatened by Climate Change, Food Chain Workers Demand Labor Protections

July 31, 2023

Representative Greg Casar speaks during the Farm Bill Labor briefing in July 2023. (Photo courtesy of Union of Concerned Scientists)

This Indigenous 4-H Officer Wants to See More Farm Bill Funding for Her Community

By Gabriel Pietrorazio

July 25, 2023

Kristy Kinlicheenie standing outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture's headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Gabriel Pietrorazio)

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