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Drug Cartels Are Trying to Get Into Mexico’s Avocado Business
That’s why avocado farmers are organizing to defend their orchards, and their livelihoods.
These Antifa Goat Farmers Are Living Everyone’s Dream
Troubled by a conservative industry rife with environmental and equality problems, these Houston farmers quit their jobs to change it.
The Resilient Farmers of Fukushima
The region was rocked by a nuclear disaster nearly 10 years ago, but farmers have adapted, and still grow world-famous produce.
So Did Antifa Light This Guy's Combine on Fire or What?
A community in Nebraska believes that radicals set a Trump supporter's farm equipment on fire. But there's no public evidence it was an arson.
China Is Building a City of Pig Apartments to Protect Their Herds from Swine Flu
The high-rise pig "hotels" are expected to produce as many as 840,000 piglets a year.
Man Who Has Never Had an Actual Job Encourages Laid-Off Workers to Pick Fruit
Some have criticized Prince Charles' suggestion that people out of work due to coronavirus sign up for underpaid physical labor.
Farmers Are Euthanizing Thousands of Chickens Despite Surging Egg Demand
While some farmers can barely meet the influx of orders, others have been forced to kill tens of thousands of birds.
Malaria Is Devastating Rwanda's Rice Farmers — but the Government Still Won't Commit to This Easy Fix
Rice farmers put food on Rwandans' tables and prop up the economy, but get little help coping with the malaria-carrying mosquitoes in their fields.
How Small Farmers Are Fighting to Keep Vermont's Identity Alive
Not much says "America" more than the small dairy farm, and Vermont has spent decades selling that image. Increasingly, it's a relic of a bygone era.
Black Farmers Were Driven From Their Land for Decades. Now, Some Are Reclaiming It.
“They're looking for ways to live out their values. And returning to the land is one dramatic way that they can do that.”
California's Burning, and Farmworkers Are Still in the Fields
“When there’s work, we work,” said crop picker Juan Magaña.
Why the Amazon Is Really on Fire — and Why It's Going to Keep Burning
We visited the front lines of the Amazon wildfires for our new Hulu show, VICE Investigates.