Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren't just growing—they are accelerating ...

North American bird populations are not just shrinking; they are shrinking faster with each passing decade, and the worst losses now cluster in the continent’s most intensively farmed regions. A study ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Doug Sackman is a history professor at the University of ...

Welcome to Big Ideas, a Prospect survey of next-generation solutions for pressing policy problems. Our writers scour the policy landscape to find out how to bring ...

On my family farm in Georgia, every season begins with the same basic question: will the numbers work? Like farmers across the country, my family looks at the cost of seed, fertilizer, feed, fuel, and ...

You can count on the delivery system of rail, Culotti says, “and we need to pave the way for that, or lay the track for that. We need to say these are food depots across the United States, and we need ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

The U.S. pork industry is releasing its first-ever farming responsibility report: 2012 Pork Industry Progress Report, Responsible Farming. Our Heritage. Our Future. The 36-page report details the ...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump celebrate Women's History Month at the White House. by Megan Clarke ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — About 30 minutes from Washington, D.C., the Arcadia ...