By Brent Cunningham U.S. farmers die by suicide at three and a half times the national rate. Their jobs are difficult, dangerous, and precarious, at the mercy of increasingly volatile weather and ...

Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of ...

Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of ...

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

By Tom Laskawy FERN is in a phase of growth and evolution to meet the changing media landscape for food and environmental journalism. We are fortunate to announce that Tanya Haider has agreed to ...

In early December 2023, through a scrim of swirling flurries, Mackenson Remy steered his minivan past an open gate in the security fence surrounding a gray concrete factory along Highway 85, on the ...

For much of the past two decades, soda was … suffering a bit of a reputation problem. This is because soda is really not good for you: It generally contains a ton of sugar and no ...

A novel solution to give Americans better access to fresh food is picking up steam across the country: government-owned, government-operated grocery stores. Such stores are touted by proponents as a ...

“Remy went home and cut together a montage of his footage from inside JBS and around Greeley and recorded a voiceover with the information from Ebah. This isn’t a job for lazy people, he says in ...

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All six episodes of Buzzkill are out, and we hope you’re enjoying them. But at FERN we’re givers, so check out this bonus episode, recorded earlier this month in New York City at a live event (and ...