Agriculture

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Health

How The USDA's Food Box Initiative Overpaid And Underdelivered

The Trump Administration has been buying food from farmers and getting it to food banks. Food banks, however, say the program was not set up to deliver food efficiently.
Dan Charles
Environment

How Absentee Landlords Keep Farmers From Protecting Water And Soil

America's vast fields of corn and soybeans have displaced wildlife and polluted waterways. Farmers could help solve those problems, but often don't, in part because they rent that land.
Dan Charles
Farmworkers face ‘a myriad of indignities’ during pandemic

‘It is about workers feeling that finally it is made really clear that their lives don't matter’
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
The cost of a strawberry: Overtime battle for Washington's farm workers

Strawberry season doesn’t mean strawberry shortcake or strawberry jam for Ana. It means long days bent nearly double to snap ripe strawberries from where they grow, near the ground. “You have to lean over a lot to pick strawberries,” she said. “So of course everything hurts: your legs, your back--everything.”
Eilís O'Neill
Health

A 'perfect storm' in Yakima County puts residents on edge

A report from the Washington county with the highest rate of Covid-19 infections
Kim Malcolm

Enrique Perez de la Rosa

Andy Hurst
Health

Seattle Now: No lentils for you

The pandemic is throwing a wrench in the agriculture system that takes food from the field to your local grocery store. We dive into why you might be seeing empty shelves at the supermarket, and the effect Covid-19 is having on farm workers.
Patricia Murphy

Clare McGrane
Environment

Vertical farming tries to bring crops to urban consumers in Seattle region

In a Kirkland QFC, herbs and greens are growing inside what looks like a big refrigerator lit with soft purple light.
Eilís O'Neill
Environment

Canoeing to work: Floods bring chaos, renewal to Snoqualmie Valley

The Snoqualmie Valley typically gets about one major flood each winter. So far this season, there have been five.
John Ryan
Like Your Hummus Wet? Then You Want Dry Garbs. So Do Northwest Farmers

Outside Palouse, Washington, it’s mid-autumn and Chad Redman’s combine tractor keeps jamming with rocks it picks up in the field. Chad and his father, Jim, tug and ratchet at the combine. But nothing dislodges these rocks from the cutting header. “So we’ll have to go back to the pickup,” Jim Redman grumbles.
Anna King
Food

How 75,000 Abandoned Cabbages Inspired A Huge Online Forum For Farmers In Africa

In Kenya, a tech worker-turned-farmer almost threw in the trowel. Now, he helps other farmers share tips and support.
Diane Cole

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