Food + Politics
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Georgia Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock sit behind two tables. May 2021
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack hit the road in rural Georgia to talk about historic debt relief for Black farmers. The audience was skeptical.
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Georgia Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock sit behind two tables. May 2021
05.24.2021
by Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza
GOP governors’ cutoff of Covid benefits hits hard in rural America
05.24.2021
by Aallyah Wright
Transitioning from being a field worker to now farming her own land, organic farmer Celsa Ortega tells her sons what to do, and how to do it, as they all weed one of her fields of celery on September 20, 2020 in Salinas, California. May 2021
Young farmers struggle with child care and health insurance
Transitioning from being a field worker to now farming her own land, organic farmer Celsa Ortega tells her sons what to do, and how to do it, as they all weed one of her fields of celery on September 20, 2020 in Salinas, California. May 2021
05.12.2021
by Shoshanah Inwood + Andrea Rissing + Florence Becot
Biden’s American Families Plan would fix SNAP eligibility for formerly incarcerated people banned from benefits
04.30.2021
by Simran Sethi
Economic Research Service logo in front of hands pulling weed from soil. April 2021
Vilsack confirms that USDA research arms will not return to Washington, D.C.
Economic Research Service logo in front of hands pulling weed from soil. April 2021
04.29.2021
by Jessica Fu
Schirmer Farms (Batesville) Operations Manager Brandon Schirmer leaves the harvester parked and ready to start the first sesame harvest of thiw 270-acre circular pivot irrigated sesame field at his mother and father's 1,014-acre multi-crop farm in Batesville, TX, on October 29, 2020.
The Senate appears poised to pass a bipartisan bill to help farmers sell carbon credits. Not everyone is happy.
Schirmer Farms (Batesville) Operations Manager Brandon Schirmer leaves the harvester parked and ready to start the first sesame harvest of thiw 270-acre circular pivot irrigated sesame field at his mother and father's 1,014-acre multi-crop farm in Batesville, TX, on October 29, 2020.
04.27.2021
by H. Claire Brown
Chris Hollis is among the truck drivers involved in organizing a union at Valley Proteins' animal waste rendering operations in North Carolina. April 2021
Workers face off against rendering company in rural North Carolina
Chris Hollis is among the truck drivers involved in organizing a union at Valley Proteins' animal waste rendering operations in North Carolina. April 2021
04.23.2021
by Lewis Kendall
Contents of a USDA Farmers to Families food box includes apples meatballs, hotdogs, milk and other fresh items that need to be consumed in a timely manner in Athens, Ohio on December 19, 2020. - Thousands of food boxes were distributed to families from all over rural Appalachia who were able to drive to the fairgrounds, but most only were able to leave with one box of food for the week of Christmas. April 2021
Biden administration to end USDA food box program
Contents of a USDA Farmers to Families food box includes apples meatballs, hotdogs, milk and other fresh items that need to be consumed in a timely manner in Athens, Ohio on December 19, 2020. - Thousands of food boxes were distributed to families from all over rural Appalachia who were able to drive to the fairgrounds, but most only were able to leave with one box of food for the week of Christmas. April 2021
04.14.2021
by H. Claire Brown
A worker removes unusable Russet Burbank potatoes as they are transferred into a storage facility operated by local grower Frank Martinez of Saddle View Farms on May 1, 2020 in Warden, Washington.
Washington state is likely to pass one of the nation’s strongest farmworker overtime laws
A worker removes unusable Russet Burbank potatoes as they are transferred into a storage facility operated by local grower Frank Martinez of Saddle View Farms on May 1, 2020 in Warden, Washington.
04.14.2021
by Jessica Fu