JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them. Meanwhile, Haiti was unraveling amid escalating ...

By Theodore Ross The second episode of Buzzkill, our new podcast on the pollinator crisis, is available now and unravels the mystery of the mass die-off of a researcher’s bees in Meade, Nebraska.

By Theodore Ross JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the ...

JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate that is the world’s largest producer of meat, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them.

The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the agricultural workers ...

Flávia Milhorance reports on political, social and environmental issues from Brazil. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, and other publications in Brazil and ...

I bolted awake, clutching a cold, wet towel to my abdomen: my ‘liver wrap,’ applied at bedtime per the instructions on my printed schedule. A faint signal like a just-rung bell — ...

President Donald Trump returns to the White House and has vowed to deport millions of immigrants and refugees as one of his first tasks. If he does, it will have a major impact on the meatpacking ...

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 ...

By Theodore Ross We have now entered the first week of the second Trump administration, and for foreign-born workers in the food system and their families — and for news organizations such as ...

By Theodore Ross There is a … buzz around the FERN offices these days, one that I attribute to the release of the first episode of Buzzkill, our six-episode podcast series on the pollinator crisis.