It’s 2016 and Simone Strey looks giddy. In the video, a clip from a series titled Innovators Under 35: Germany, the agritech entrepreneur awkwardly explains the challenge of jumping into the business ...

Start your workday with the news you need. FERN’s Ag Insider Daily is a must-read morning brief offering agriculture business and policy news nuggets and scoops from a wide range of sources. The free ...

Recently I told a friend I was canning potatoes we gleaned. It took me by surprise when she asked, ‘What does gleaned mean?’ My explanation failed to convey sufficient information about this ...

Americans are spending a greater portion of their income on food than they have in decades. In the past few months, the growing outrage over price hikes has been expressed in a spate of lawsuits by ...

On Aug. 22, hours before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump was claiming that she would abolish Immigration and Customs ...

Payments totaling $235 million are being issued this week to producers hit by natural disasters, including Hurricane Milton in Florida, said the Agriculture Department. The payments make up the bulk ...

Chuck Abbott is Editor of FERN's Ag Insider. With three decades of Washington experience, Abbott is an old hand at covering U.S. food and agriculture policy at the national level, ranging from the ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

Agriculture officials culled all poultry and hogs on a small backyard farm in central Oregon following an outbreak of bird flu that included the first confirmed ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...