By Theodore Ross JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the ...

JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate that is the world’s largest producer of meat, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them.

“At 3 a.m., I bolted awake, clutching a cold, wet towel to my abdomen: my ‘liver wrap,’ applied at bedtime per the instructions on my printed schedule. A faint signal like a just-rung bell — the ...

The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the agricultural ...

By Theodore Ross There is a … buzz around the FERN offices these days, one that I attribute to the release of the first episode of Buzzkill, our six-episode podcast series on the pollinator crisis.

“If the Trump administration follows through on its most ambitious mass deportation plans, who exactly will replace these essential workers? According to several high-ranking members of Trump’s ...

A new FERN podcast about the pollinator crisis – and what can be done to solve it. Available wherever you get your podcasts. The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, ...

Today is an exciting day for FERN, and for people who are interested in biodiversity and solutions for the pollinator crisis! Most of the food crops humans grow depend on pollinators — bees, ...

We have now entered the first week of the second Trump administration, and for foreign-born workers in the food system and their families — and for news organizations such as FERN that document their ...