Right now, Congress is working on a fast-track bill that would make historic cuts to basic needs programs in order to finance another round of tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. The ...

International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...

Monsignor George Higgins was a fixture of American Catholicism in the mid- 20th century. He taught at Catholic University and served on the staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He had a ...

The idea for this letter came about when Farm Aid and the National Young Farmers Coalition began discussing the difficult situations many young farmers face today. This led to David’s appearance in ...

Friday, March 28, was a near-perfect spring day in Mankato, Minnesota. The sun peeked out and temperatures hovered around 70 degrees. Students on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato, ...

About 75 years ago, Great Lakes fish were nearly wiped out and the fishing industry as we know it completely eradicated. A so-called vampire was lurking, overpopulating and infiltrating the waterways ...

Iowa has long prided itself on its public schools. Its 2004 statehood quarter features a one-room schoolhouse with a teacher and a student planting a tree alongside the inscription “Foundation in ...

Visit a dairy farm anywhere in the country and odds are decent you’ll overhear conversations in Spanish. Like other farmers in the United States, dairy farmers rely on immigrant laborers from Mexico ...

I am a small, organic vegetable farmer in southern Maine, in the town of Topsham, where I grew up. For the past 15 years, our farm has worked with U.S. Department of Agriculture to help build ...