I left a couple of frames of honey in the box, letting the few remaining bees eat their fill as their days ran out. I found the body of the queen, the blue spot still on her back. The ...

On Aug. 22, hours before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump was claiming that she would abolish Immigration and ...

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, ...

Deeble said bulk tank tests typically bring an initial surge of detections followed by a rapid drop-off. The USDA strategy against bird flu in cattle is to use stepped-up biosecurity measures to ...

“The middle of the country’s reputation for bland food completely ignores our Indigenous peoples,” write Sean Sherman and Mecca Bos. “Within this core of America, dismissed by some as ‘flyover states, ...

A dairy farm worker in California’s Central Valley with mild symptoms tested positive for the bird flu virus — the first case in the state and the 16th in the nation this year — said the California ...

The USDA will work with farmers and rural communities to help them recover from “significant” losses caused by Hurricane Helene, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, traveling with President Biden ...

By Theodore Ross What is the heartland, anyway? That’s a question that comes up a lot at FERN, because it cuts to the … heart … of the journalism we do on food and the environment. Our ...

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, ...