South Africa has been an obsession of the second Trump Administration. The President has seized upon the claim by right-wing ...

On Monday at 5:30 a.m., more than three thousand employees at the JBS beef packing plant in Greeley, Colorado, officially walked off the line. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 ...

By Theodore Ross Our latest story at FERN, published in partnership with The New Yorker, examines a little-known population ...

Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a three-mile loop at the Nelson-King Farms, in rural Mississippi. He began at the ...

“In Rawmarsh, the Rotherham-adjacent village where I grew up, food choices [in the early 2000s] still tended towards the traditional, both at home and in the school canteen: meats, boiled vegetables, ...

“Just about everyone close to Tshephiso Marumo condemned her when she chose to sell ears of corn door-to-door a decade ago after earning an honors degree from a university in her native Botswana. It ...

But the changes to the H-2A visa backed by the Trump administration won't solve farmers' labor problem, and will make the serious health and safety issues that farmworkers face even worse. Shortly ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these ...

Mariano had been to the U.S. once before, nearly a decade earlier, but this was nothing like his previous trip. His first time crossing, there hadn’t been swarms of cartel thugs on the Mexican side of ...

The sinking of the Gulf Livestock 1 was an existential moment for farm animal exporters. Some of those lessons are being forgotten. Australian Livestock are channelled from cattle trucks, onto the ...

Against a vast wash of sagebrush and volcanic rock in Utah’s West Desert, Chris Merritt, an archaeologist with the State Historic Preservation Office, took me on a tour of the old Transcontinental ...

Green is not the color one expects to see in the cactus-and-yucca-dotted Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. But for more than a hundred miles along the I-25 corridor, between Truth or ...