climate and agriculture

photo of a cornfield with a row of many tall metal grain silos looming in the background

Preston Keres/USDA

October 7, 2025

Why Planting Too Much Corn Hurts Farmers—and the Environment

Kathryn Anderson
Program Director, Food & Environment

aerial view of flooded farm fields and buildings in Missouri

Scott Olson/Getty Images

May 5, 2025

The Next Food and Farm Bill Can Make Agriculture More Resilient—With the Help of the ARA

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

photo of a farm vehicle spraying fertilizer on a field of corn, with a bright, partly cloudy sky in the background

Katie Nichols/ACES

February 11, 2025

Fertilizer Overuse Is Bad Enough. What If You’re Exposed to Multiple Pollutants?

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

Brooke Rollins stands at a podium with a presidential seal on it and speaks to an unseen audience through a microphone; behind her are a group of people including Donald Trump, and a set of four US flags

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

January 21, 2025

Trump’s Pick to Lead the USDA, Brooke Rollins, Is Inexperienced, Anti-Science, and Extremist

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

photo of rows of wilted savoy cabbage in a farm field affected by drought

BearFotos/Shutterstock

January 24, 2024

The USDA’s Climate Hubs Could Help Farmers Adapt to Extreme Weather

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

Tomas Hertogh/Unsplash

December 14, 2023

What COP28 Means for Climate Action in a US Food and Farm Bill

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

photo of a farmer wearing a bucket hat and driving a tractor toward the camera, with some trees and hazy sky in the background

USDA/Lance Cheung

August 15, 2023

Three Things the 2023 Food and Farm Bill Can—and Should—Do

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

photo of a farmer looking out over a flooded field; the sun is setting in the background and the light is reflecting off the floodwaters

Budimir Jevtic/Shutterstock

May 15, 2023

Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

photo of a massive wall of orange dust clouds moving down an empty road lined with tall streetlights, heading straight toward the camera

Caleb Holder/Shutterstock

May 11, 2023

Illinois Dust Storm Disaster Is a Warning for Agriculture

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

photo of members of the Good Food For All coalition posing on the steps in front of the US Capitol in May 2023

Juan Carlos Soriano/UCS

May 10, 2023

Coalition Members Deliver Their Food and Farm Bill Message to Congress

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

photo of a family picking strawberries in a field, with a house in the background

SrA Dennis Sloan, USAF/Department of Defense

April 4, 2023

What Should the 2023 Food and Farm Bill Include—and How Do We Make It Happen?

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

photo of a sign next to a rural road. It reads "The Next Farm Bill" at the top, and "Town Hall" below, with an arrow pointing away from the road.

Lance Cheung/USDA

February 9, 2023

Six Reasons Why You Should Care about the (So-Called) Farm Bill

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

photo of a slice of pecan pie on a red and white plate in the foreground, with a snowman mug in the background

Karen Elliott Edleson/Flickr

December 20, 2022

Nuts, Drought, and My Quest for the Perfect Pecan Pie

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Fruits and vegetables of all sorts are inspected by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) Market News Reporters and Specialty Crop Inspectors at the Terminal Market in Chicago, April 26, 2019.

Preston Keres, USDA/Flickr

December 15, 2022

Latest Round of USDA Climate-Smart Grantmaking is Both Better and More of the Same

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

photo of many black and white cows in a barn; two of the cows in the foreground have a tag attached to one ear

USDA/Flickr

December 8, 2022

As the USDA Invests in “Climate-Smart” Agriculture, It’s Hard to Follow the Money

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

USDA

February 2, 2021

Questions for a Once-and-Future Agriculture Secretary

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock

October 11, 2019

As Presidential Candidates Prepare for Ohio Debate, Farmers Need a New Vision

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Public Domain

July 16, 2019

Climate Change and Wine – Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

UCS Science Network