Farm Bill

photo of two workers in a meatpacking plant wearing hard hats and protective gear, handling slabs of beef on a processing line

Alice Welch/USDA

December 11, 2024

Ten Bills to Create Dignity and Safe Working Conditions for Food and Farm Workers

Guest Commentary

photo of women wearing blue protective gear on either side of the production line in a dimly lit turkey processing plant

Preston Keres/USDA

October 24, 2024

The Historical Exploitation of Agricultural and Food Workers Needs to Stop

DeShawn L. Blanding
Senior Washington Representative

photo of an empty US Senate hearing room, with a row of padded blue chairs on a raised dais facing out toward multiple rows of metal chairs for visitors

WellesEnterprises/Getty Images

October 15, 2024

The Election Is Almost Here—But Where Is the Farm Bill?

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

photo of sign for the US Department of Agriculture Whitten Building in Washington, DC; the building is in the background, among trees, a garden, and walkway

Melissa Kopka/Getty Images

September 30, 2024

It’s Time to Institutionalize Equity at the Department of Agriculture

DeShawn L. Blanding
Senior Washington Representative

photo of male and female Black farmers at a protest, holding signs that read "Discrimination is wrong," "Don't take our land," and "Equal justice is the law"

Anson Eaglin/USDA

August 27, 2024

A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

Precious Tshabalala
Economist

USDA

May 14, 2024

Ask a Scientist: Stopping Big Ag from Hijacking US Farm and Food Policy

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Anson Eaglin/USDA

May 14, 2024

The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

DeShawn L. Blanding
Senior Washington Representative

aerial photo of a section of Everglades National Park, with multiple streams winding through lush green wetlands

NPS

January 3, 2024

The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

Stacy Woods
Research Director

photo of a farm field with a storm in the distance; lightning is striking in the distance and rain appears to be falling on the horizon, where there is dim light below the dark clouds

Lesleyanne Ryan/Shutterstock

November 14, 2023

New Report Shows the Need for a Food and Farm Bill That Fights Climate Change

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

Lance Cheung/USDA

September 28, 2023

The IRA Made Huge Climate Investments in Rural Areas. Now, the Food and Farm Bill Must Maintain Them.

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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

Mark Stebnicki/Pexels

August 10, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

close-up photo of a hand holding a mound of dark, moist soil

USDA

March 28, 2023

Why Soil Health Is So Important to the Agriculture Resilience Act

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

photo of cashiers and customers in several checkout lines at a Walmart store

QualityHD/Shutterstock

March 13, 2023

How Big Food Corporations Take Advantage of SNAP

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

Lance Cheung/USDA

March 2, 2023

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

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

photo of a smiling US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack holding copies of the 2023 interim report by the USDA Equity Commission; he is flanked by one female and one male member of the commission who are both applauding; the US flag and the USDA flag are in the background

Tom Witham/USDA

March 2, 2023

Will an Equity Commission Report Address Systemic Racism at the USDA?

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

photo of soldiers in camouflage uniforms and masks at a long table filling many crates with food supplies

Georgia National Guard/Maj. Charles W. Westrip

December 21, 2022

Hunger Is a Long-Term Emergency—Federal Benefits Should Reflect That

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

photo of two signs in front of the entrance to Eastie Farm in East Boston, MA. One hanging on a fence explains its mission; the other on a chalkboard lists what is available this day for people participating in its CSA program.

Eastie Farm/Agnieszka Rytych-Foster

December 20, 2022

How Do You Fight for Environmental, Climate, and Food Justice? Eastie Farm Offers a Recipe

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

A person holds up an enormous zucchini, smiling (the person, not the zucchini). They are part of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a Land-Grant Tribal College and University. They are Land-Grant program Gardner Teresa Kaulaity Quintana (Kiowa), who leads the gardening team, operations, instruction and outreach for all things related the campus demonstration garden and greenhouse, in Santa Fe, NM. Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2019.

Lance Cheung, USDA/Flickr

December 6, 2022

How Should the USDA Spend its Research Budget? (We Have Some Ideas.)

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

photo of a woman speaking to a crowd on a city street through a microphone, in front of a sign that says "sub-poverty wages: I'm not lovin' it"

Carlos Fernandez, CIW/Flickr

November 21, 2022

How Many Farmworkers Are Food Insecure? It’s Hard to Tell

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

President Joe Biden greets farm workers in Central Lake, Michigan.

White House

September 13, 2022

President Biden’s Farm Bill Must Transform Our Food System

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Phil Roeder/Flickr

January 8, 2019

Four Things the New Congress Can Do to Hold Trump’s USDA Accountable

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue attends a Farmer's Roundtable where President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America April 25, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C.. USDA photo by Preston Keres

December 20, 2018

The 2018 Farm Bill Is Now Law. But the Shenanigans Continue…

Ricardo Salvador
Former Director, Food & Environment Program

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue attends a Farmer's Roundtable where President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America April 25, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C.. USDA photo by Preston Keres

December 20, 2018

Trump Administration Seeks to Undermine SNAP After Congress Negotiates Bipartisan Farm Bill

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor