“My education, as such, began fifteen years ago, when I was living in Lyon with my family and training to cook French food at l’Institut Paul Bocuse,” writes Bill Buford. “There I heard an early and ...

All of us at FERN were thrilled to learn earlier this week that we were a three-time finalist at the James Beard Media Awards, in collaboration with two of our valued partners. I edited my first story ...

By Theodore Ross Many of the most important questions environmentalists must face are about tradeoffs. What steps are we willing to take to fix our climate problems? What do we do when our ...

Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews, and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider ...

The Food and Drug Administration said there has been no uptick of human cases of the flu or no cases of H5N1 bird flu in people beyond the dairy worker in Texas who contracted the highly pathogenic ...

Claims about hydropower as a clean, green, sustainable power source,” writes Christopher Ketcham, “issue with equal aplomb from government regulators, enviro journalists, climate academics and ...

All of us at FERN were thrilled to learn earlier this week that we are a three-time finalist at the James Beard Media Awards, in collaboration with two of our valued partners.

Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews, and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider policy ...

Raw chicken will be rejected as an ingredient in making breaded, stuffed chicken products if there is too much salmonella bacteria in the meat — a step to protect consumers from food-borne illness, ...

A fraction of U.S. farmers, about 3.5 percent, receive payments for oil, gas, and wind energy production on their land, and those payments provide “substantial income,” said a USDA report. With the ...