farm policy

satellite photo of the continental United States with the rivers of the Mississippi and Missouri watershed highlighted; all the rivers eventually drain into the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

July 31, 2025

What Do Trump’s Attacks on NOAA Have to Do with the Gulf Dead Zone?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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

A scientist collects samples on board a research vessel as part of a research project to investigate falling oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea.

Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images

July 25, 2024

Scientists Keep Measuring the Dead Zone. Let’s Fix the Fertilizer that Feeds It

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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 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

Lance Cheung/USDA

March 2, 2023

Farmland Consolidation, Not Chinese Ownership, Is the Real National Security Threat

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

October 1, 2021

Four Ways Congress Can Use the Budget Reconciliation to Help Farmers Build a Resilient Farm Future

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Jim Horn/Flickr

April 22, 2020

As COVID-19 Reveals Our Food System’s Flaws, Congress Can Boost Protection Now—and Resilience for the Future

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

mahalie stackpole/Flickr

September 19, 2019

USDA Report: Farm Payments Up 42%, Farm Debt Rising

Rebecca Boehm
Former Contributor

Photo: Iowa State University/Lisa Schulte Moore

August 19, 2016

How US Farm Subsidies Make Taxpayers Pay Twice (And How We Could Change That)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

August 1, 2016

Good News and Bad News on This Year's Dead Zone Measurement

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Photo: US Department of Agriculture/flickr

July 5, 2016

Trapped in an Endless Cycle of Corn, Farmers Need Better Choices

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

July 19, 2013

Refocusing the Farm Bill

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

October 30, 2012

The Transition To Crop Rotation: How Do We Get There?

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

August 8, 2012

Coping With Drought: How to Build a More Resilient Agricultural System

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

November 14, 2011

Five Billion Reasons to Eat Local

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

October 24, 2011

It’s Food Day! How Will You Celebrate?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

October 14, 2011

Gardening (and Farming) As If the Planet Depended on It

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director