Mary Poppins came out in 1964, long after women got the right to vote both in the U.K. and the U.S., but Mrs. Banks embodies many of the Victorian arguments against women’s suffrage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bird flu infections have been confirmed in a dairy worker in California and a poultry worker in Washington, raising the U.S. total to 46 people, said the Centers for Disease Control on Wednesday.

For the next few years, season-average prices for U.S. corn, soybeans, and wheat, the three most widely grown crops in the country, will largely mirror the market prices for this year’s crops, ...

While Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop seems to be coasting to his 17th term in the House, the three other Democrats who voted in committee for the Republican-written farm bill are scuffling to win a ...

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FERN was a three-time finalist for the James Beard Media Awards, and won twice! FERN reporter Ted Genoways won Sidney Hillman Foundation’s June Sidney investigative reporting award for, “A police ...