Topics
Who's buying America's dirt — and why you should care.
Foreign governments, private equity, and Big Ag are scooping up US farmland at record pace. We track every acre and the shell companies behind the deals.
The financial trap squeezing family farms out of existence.
Input costs up, prices flat, and lenders circling. We crunch the numbers on the debt spiral forcing a generation of farmers off land their families built.
Your tractor, their software — the fight to own what you bought.
John Deere and its rivals lock farmers into dealer-only repairs through DRM. We cover the legal fights, the hackers, and the lawmakers pushing back.
Farmers, co-ops, and organizers refusing to go quietly.
From seed-saving networks to tractor blockades, rural communities are building power against consolidation. We document every win, setback, and coalition.
What agribusiness is doing to the soil — and the people who work it.
Pesticide drift, PFAS contamination, depleted aquifers. We report the environmental toll of industrial agriculture on the communities in the sacrifice zone.
The farmworkers keeping America fed — and the system designed to exploit them.
Wage theft, heat illness, brutal housing, and visa programs that bind workers to abusive employers. We center the people whose labor feeds the country.