Conscious Consumption

Where have all of the farm vets gone?

Dear Modern Farmer,

On Father's Day, millions of us who are acutely aware of our shortcomings as parents will receive cards proclaiming each of us that we're "the greatest Dad ever.” If our smiles s...

Modern Farmer's weekly look at agricultural malfeasance from around the world.

Badgers: so cute, so furry, and, thanks to The Wind in the Willows, so nobly anthropomorphic. But they also carry bovine TB — and the British government plans to kill up to 100,000 of them.

By the time Chellie Pingree was elected to represent Maine’s 1st district in the United States House of Representatives in 2008, she had already amassed more than thirty years of farming experience in the state.

Harman Johar, a recent graduate of the University of Georgia Athens, and just a regula guy — except he has a few extra thousand roommates. And he just scored $2 million to begin his organic bug business.

The criminal misdemeanor trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger that drew national media attention ended more than two weeks ago, but Michele Bollfrass-Hopp, one of the jurors in the case, has been unable to get it out of her mind.

Love eating chicken? Hate the idea of factory farming? Want to do something about it? Ali Berlow is here to help.