JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them. Meanwhile, Haiti was unraveling amid escalating ...

By Theodore Ross JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the ...

By Theodore Ross The second episode of Buzzkill, our new podcast on the pollinator crisis, is available now and unravels the mystery of the mass die-off of a researcher’s bees in Meade, Nebraska.

JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate that is the world’s largest producer of meat, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them.

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, ...

“Plant diseases cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year, with between 20 to 40 percent of global crop production lost to crop diseases and pests. Climate change is ramping ...

President Donald Trump returns to the White House and has vowed to deport millions of immigrants and refugees as one of his first tasks. If he does, it will have a major impact on the meatpacking ...

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, ...

I bolted awake, clutching a cold, wet towel to my abdomen: my ‘liver wrap,’ applied at bedtime per the instructions on my printed schedule. A faint signal like a just-rung bell — ...

By Theodore Ross There is a … buzz around the FERN offices these days, one that I attribute to the release of the first episode of Buzzkill, our six-episode podcast series on the pollinator crisis.

“Each year, these plantations generate about $50 million in revenue for the Ocho Sur group, whose palm oil has ended up in products ranging from Cheetos to Colgate toothpaste. The $160 million that ...

The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the agricultural ...