High Country News

Idaho: The CAFO state?

Idaho rolls out the welcome mat for chicken farms and other huge livestock operations.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Aug 21, 2011
Universities lag on organics

Montana’s land-grant universities have so far shown little interest in promoting organic agriculture

by Sam Western, Dec 26, 2005
The meat of the matter

In Righteous Porkchop, Nicolette Hahn Niman takes on factory farming but gives ranching a pass.

by Andrea Appleton, Aug 03, 2009
Weighing our water options

As the rapidly growing city of Las Vegas, Nev., schemes to find more water, it reminds those of us who live outside big cities that we also need to rethink the way we use water

by Paul Larmer, Sep 19, 2005
Organic goes down a slippery road

Even as organic food gains in popularity, big corporations and Chinese imports are taking over the market and diluting the very meaning of "organic."

by Ari LeVaux, Jul 17, 2009
With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all

In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers

by Annie Dawid, Mar 20, 2006
Agrichemical companies power up genetically modified seeds

The next generation of engineered seeds will escalate herbicide spraying, with potentially large environmental consequences.

by Danielle Venton, Nov 26, 2012

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