By Theodore Ross Our latest story at FERN, published in partnership with The New Yorker, examines a little-known population ...

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

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

“Just about everyone close to Tshephiso Marumo condemned her when she chose to sell ears of corn door-to-door a decade ago after earning an honors degree from a university in her native Botswana. It ...

“Each one of us has a unique scent profile, like a fingerprint. Everything from our personality type – such as extroversion, dominance and neuroticism – to our mood and health affects the way we smell ...