1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (641+ words) Federal applications for the organic cost-share program typically open in the summer, but the agency has yet to distribute 2025 funding. April 1, 2026 " The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has yet to initiate the 2025 application and payment process for funds authorized by Congress…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1833+ words) The Docside Clinic in Galveston provides much-needed services for fishermen in an especially dangerous part of the seafood industry. It's a cool February morning in Galveston, Texas. Seagulls circle overhead, and dozens of docked shrimping boats bob in the water....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (982+ words) Project New Village uses a strategy called equitable food-oriented development to reduce food insecurity and build longterm resilience. Every Wednesday morning, a refrigerated solar-powered truck arrives at the Mt. Hope Community Garden in Southeast San Diego. The driver hops out…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (505+ words) Agency officials say the $300 million program represented "wasteful spending." March 25, 2026 " The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ended a Biden-era program designed to give the next generation of farmers a leg up, terminating $300 million in contracts. Created with Inflation Reduction Act…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1100+ words) Through the Siletz Valley School culinary program, Siletz chef Jack Strong connects students to Indigenous foodways and to careers in food. My name is Jack Strong, and I'm a member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. I'm the executive…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1602+ words) These Central Asian trees could help shape the future of US apples. They will soon be uprooted. In the fall of 2004, Diane Miller, a tree-fruit specialist, began a two-part expedition on a Fulbright to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (964+ words) This year, we doubled our reporting on the systemic obstacles to food security, including poverty, inequality, and structural racism. Civil Eats has reported on food justice since we began publishing in 2009. At the time, many people were unaware of the…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (375+ words) Regulations finalized under the Biden administration were set to change key pieces of the chicken industry. March 19, 2026 " The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday proposed delaying a set of regulations that were set to change how chicken companies pay contract farmers…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (795+ words) Leaders in the food justice movement respond to a recent opinion piece and set forth their own agenda for frontline communities." By Dara Cooper and A coalition of food justice leaders Civil Eats recently published an op-ed by Nicholas Freudenberg…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (822+ words) In order to qualify for the $1 billion in federal assistance, specialty crop growers should have filed reports last week. Many didn't. Some small-scale fruit and vegetable farmers are skipping out on federal farm aid, citing onerous reporting requirements they say…...