agriculture

aerial photo looking down on a green tractor pulling fertilization equipment through a cornfield. The tractor's path has left a pattern of intersecting lines in the dirt.

Jacob Tosch/Porter County SWCD/USDA

March 6, 2025

Farmers Will Pay More for Fertilizer Because of President Trump’s Tariffs

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

photo of a farmer on a tractor pulling a hay rake through a field; in the background are a farmhouse, low green hills, and blue sky

Scott Olson/Getty Images

January 7, 2025

How Farm Policy Was Caught Up in a Dramatic End to 2024

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

Mario Tama/Getty Images

May 13, 2024

The State of the Air in 2024? Not Great

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou
Senior Climate Scientist

photo of a US Senate door in a dark brown wood; in gold letters a plaque on the door says "Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry"

Shutterstock/DCStockPhotography

March 18, 2024

Show Me the (Agriculture Appropriations) Money

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

Bobak Ha'Eri/Wikimedia Commons

March 4, 2024

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou
Senior Climate Scientist

photo of two Black farmers, one male and one female, standing side by side looking out at their farm, with woods in the background

Bill Cotter/UCS

September 21, 2023

Heirs’ Property: The Legal Issue That Has Cost Black Farmers $326 Billion

Archie Creech
Outreach Coordinator

photo of green sprouts coming up from dark, rich soil, with sunlight shining down from above

Sabina Gahramanova/Shutterstock

June 13, 2023

Did You Know That Soil Health Affects Human Health?

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

Agricultural Scenes, Tomb of Nakht. Norman de Garis Davies Lancelot Crane/Metropolitan Museum of Art

June 5, 2023

California Agriculture Could Use an Ancient History Lesson

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou
Senior Climate Scientist

Angel S. Fernandez-Bou/UCS

May 11, 2023

Repurposing Cropland Can Bring Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Water Justice to California

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou
Senior Climate Scientist

AgriSolar Clearinghouse/CC BY 2.0

March 28, 2023

Repurposing Cropland in California: A Solution for Everyone?

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou
Senior Climate Scientist

photo of a vineyard worker wearing a cowboy hat drinking water from the tap of a large yellow water jug

AP Photo/Lianne Milton, Napa Valley Register

November 30, 2022

This Year’s Danger Season Is Over, but Risks to Farmworkers Remain

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

GABRIELE ONORATO/FLICKR

October 11, 2022

How a Fertilizer Shortage Could Drive Food Prices Even Higher

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

LANCE CHEUNG/USDA

August 2, 2022

Why I Have Renewed Hope for Climate Action on Farms

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

DENNIS SCHROEDER/NREL

July 29, 2022

Why is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It, We’d Be Irreparably Off Course.

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

Raimond Spekking/Creative Commons

March 24, 2022

How the War in Ukraine Could Trigger a Food Crisis

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

USDA

March 15, 2022

In California’s Central Valley, Drought Is a Growing Threat to Farms, Food, and People

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Lance Cheung/USDA

December 21, 2021

Four Pieces of 2021 Progress on Agriculture and Climate Change Worth Celebrating

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

US EPA/Flickr

August 19, 2021

Louisiana Policymakers: To Solve the Dead Zone, Climate Change, and COVID-19, Embrace Equitable, Science-Based Policies Now

Rebecca Boehm
Former Contributor

Anrita1705/Pixabay

May 13, 2020

Kids, Families, and Food Workers Need a “HEROES Act.” Will Congress Deliver?

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Mike Arney/Flickr

March 27, 2020

Pandemic Exposes Plight of Food Workers Who Have Long Fought for Justice

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Russ Munn/AgStock Images

March 3, 2020

Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Midwest

Jessica Collingsworth
Former Contributor

Russ Munn/AgStock Images

December 18, 2019

Record 2019 Precipitation in Midwest Financially Crushed Farmers

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

Ben Stansall/Getty Images

September 20, 2019

Adults Behaving Badly: Climate Edition

Rebecca Boehm
Former Contributor

Woman in striped tank top examining orange canister in supermarket aisle

iStock

September 20, 2019

Corporate Profit Motives Shape Our Food Environment, and It’s Killing Us

UCS Science Network