Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a ...

By Theodore Ross Our latest story at FERN, published in partnership with The New Yorker, examines a little-known population of temporary agricultural workers in the United States: White South ...

In Rawmarsh, the Rotherham-adjacent village where I grew up, food choices [in the early 2000s] still tended towards the ...

In early February, more than 1,000 Haitian migrants employed at the unionized JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, faced imminent deportation, as the Trump administration fought in ...

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, ...

In the U.S., the dinner plate-sized Dropcopter drone can now be seen releasing dry pollen from what looks like a WW2 aircraft ball turret under its belly. One person can manually pollinate five to ...

The high cost of beef is probably not breaking news for most readers of this newsletter. We see it in the stores and feel it in our wallets. I bought ground chuck for burgers last week at my (always ...

Elliott Woods, a longtime FERN contributor, spent nearly two and a half years reporting and writing two stories on the death of 53 migrant workers who suffocated in the back of a tractor-trailer in ...