One morning a month, Marisel Robles arrives at 6 a.m. to set up the Súper Solidario market in Caguas, Puerto Rico. The once-a-month local food market offers products from over 15 small-scale local ...
A group of 20 states and the Federal Trade Commission allege that Dollar General has failed to address thousands of ...
As midterms approach, West Virginia residents describe the impact of the past two years of the Trump administration on the ...
Ecologist Jonathan Lundgren launched the 1,000 Farms Initiative to compare regenerative and conventional farming. The data is ...
The money will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in a bid to offset high costs of fuel that have hurt many farmers across the country. Republicans are facing political ...
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The Trump administration has called drops in federal food assistance enrollment good news. Access advocates and recipients ...
October 21, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a proposed rule on Wednesday aimed at protecting recipients of federal food assistance from benefit theft, but without federal ...
After a scramble to replace lost federal dollars, farmers Tim and Rebecca Cooper are now confronting high input prices, and a growing number of people seeking to make ends meet.
West Virginia has some of the highest rates of food insecurity and chronic disease in the nation, and state officials there were early supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. We ...
Back in the 1990s, when Craig Watts was still raising chickens for Perdue, the fourth largest poultry company in the U.S., his contract included a provision that prohibited him from sharing the ...
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 ...