Sales of Antibiotics for Farm Animals Spiked in 2024

A state official warned of ‘serious ripple effects’ from immigration operations that are impacting farms, restaurants, and the food supply.

The country’s largest nutrition education program was eliminated last fall, and states are starting to feel the impact. Colorado is among the first.

In Maine, Maryland, and beyond, the industry is using a well-worn playbook to slow legislators’ attempts to get forever chemicals out of food and water.

In New York City, this ambitious nonprofit restaurant serves healthy, high-quality food to all, regardless of income.

The year encompassed devastating fires, historic floods, tornadoes, regional droughts, and farmers caught in the crosshairs, as well as tireless efforts to mitigate climate change.

From expanding access to credit to cleaning up forever-chemical contamination on farmland, the proposals cover farm-group priorities for a farm bill that remains elusive.

A 2022 Civil Eats investigation found that a budget rider that prohibits OSHA from spending money to ​regulate small farms leaves most animal-ag operations without oversight. Lawmakers appear poised to renew the rider once again.

Tariffs, corporate consolidation, federal budget cuts to a wide array of farm programs, and looming cuts to healthcare were among the multiple challenges farmers faced this year.