The year encompassed devastating fires, historic floods, tornadoes, regional droughts, with farmers caught in the crosshairs.
Tariffs, corporate consolidation, and federal budget cuts were among the multiple challenges farmers faced this year.
This year, we doubled our reporting on the systemic obstacles to food security, including poverty, inequality, and structural ...
In a year of intense federal focus on immigration and removal of labor protections, we tracked the government’s actions ...
• Members of the Trump administration and the Make America Healthy Again movement have repeatedly criticized the process, and the advisory committee, behind the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).
For decades, regardless of who’s been president, some leaders in key government food and farm departments have had strong industry ties. But during his first term, President Donald Trump supercharged ...
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “unleash” U.S. energy. The order directed the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, to ...
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In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothers—third-generation Black farmers—started a farming venture with 40 acres in rural Sondheimer, Louisiana. Located on the western bank of the Mississippi ...