Animal Ag

two black chickens and a brown chicken peck at produce in a backyard area

Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

February 18, 2025

Family-sized egg operations create resiliency, and the rewards can outweigh the risks.

Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

By Daniel Walton

January 28, 2025

a cow with some grass in her mouth looks at the camera on a dairy farm filled with grass fields

Fighting the Corporate CAFO ‘Takeover’ of Rural America

By Tilde Herrera

November 18, 2024

A woman wearing a blue shirt sits for a portrait and the image next to her is a book cover with a cow that says

The Fate of Denver’s Last Slaughterhouse Is on the Ballot

By Raksha Vasudevan

October 23, 2024

inside a slaughterhouse with hundreds of slayed lambs hanging from hooks

For Contract Farmers, the Election Could Change Everything—or Nothing at All

October 8, 2024

A Vietnamese American couple wearing blue t-shirts stands in a large green field on a chicken farm

The US Weakens a UN Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance

September 25, 2024

Cows are seen in a confined feeding operations in Yuma, Arizona.

Why Are US Agricultural Emissions Dropping?

September 11, 2024

Cattle crowd inside a feedlot operated by JBS Five Rivers Colorado Beef on August 22, 2012 near Wiley, Colorado. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

How a Vermont Cheesemaker Helps Local Farms Thrive

September 4, 2024

Mateo Kehler of Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, Vermont. (Photo credit: Jake Price)

‘Shelf Life’ Peeks Into the Nooks and Crannies of the Cheesemaker’s World

By Nicole J. Caruth

July 30, 2024

Senator Cory Booker Says FDA Proposal Could Worsen Antibiotic Resistance

July 10, 2024

A farmworker feeds cows in a barn.

Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

July 2, 2024

Foggy Bottoms Boys co-owner Cody Nicholson-Stratton pictured with his son. (Photo courtesy of Foggy Bottoms Boys)

Medically Important Antibiotics Are Still Being Used to Fatten Up Pigs

June 12, 2024

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

What Happened to Antibiotic-Free Chicken?

May 22, 2024

hickens gather around a feeder at a farm on August 9, 2014 in Osage, Iowa. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

Bird Flu May Be Driven By This Overlooked Factor

May 15, 2024

Snow Geese fly over Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo credit: Yiming Chen, Getty Images)

Despite Recent Headlines, Urban Farming Is Not a Climate Villain

April 3, 2024

Market Garden youth interns tend to small-crop production at the urban farm Rivoli Bluffs in St-Paul, Minnesota, Sept. 28, 2022. (USDA photo by Christophe Paul)

From Livestock to Lion’s Mane, the Latest From the Transfarmation Project

April 1, 2024

Craig Watts in his mushroom-growing shipping container.(Photo courtesy of Mercy for Animals)

In ‘Barons,’ Austin Frerick Takes on the Most Powerful Families in the Food System

By Twilight Greenaway

March 26, 2024

author austin frerick and the cover of barons, his new book about corporate consolidation, monopolies, food systems, and more. (Author photo by Kris Graves)

The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight

March 13, 2024

Fisherman Ted Fleener hunts for trout in Bloody Run Creek. (Photo credit: Larry Stone)

New Research Shows How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy

March 6, 2024

cattle in a feedlot that is generating a lot of greenhouse gas emissions

Regenerative Beef Gets a Boost from California Universities

March 4, 2024

Cattle graze along the California coast. (Photo credit: Denise Taylor, Getty Images)

Should a Plan to Curb Meat Industry Water Pollution Consider the Business Costs?

February 5, 2024

(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

January 31, 2024

Zach Jones of Impact Ag and ranch manager Race King speak to buyers during the tour of the Matador. (Photo credit: Lisa Held)

Op-ed: This Farm Bill Could Rein in Big Agriculture’s Lobbying Power

January 17, 2024

Ranchers supervise grazing grass-fed cattle. (Photo courtesy of White Oak Pastures)

The Food System Is Having a Big-Screen Moment

January 10, 2024

a collage of food and farming documentary posters including the smell of money, food inc 2, farming while black and common ground

Our Best Climate Reporting of 2023

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 26, 2023

A USDA scientist examines sorghum plants. (USDA photo by Peggy Greb)