Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis?

On the history of modern food.

On peaches.

For the past 70 years, the Circle L 5 Riding Club in Fort Worth has been honoring the legacy of its forefathers.

An amateur seed bank has rescued countless rare varieties, but now it may be running out of time.

There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.

After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land.

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.

Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Capitalism, self-identity, and fraudulent projections.

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.

For decades, “trimmigrants” have flooded California’s Emerald Triangle during harvest season in search of highly paid seasonal work. In the isolation of the dense forest, sexual assault is commonplace and rarely investigated.

It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.

For generations, plantation owners strove to keep black laborers on the farm and competing businesses out of town. Today, the towns faring best are the ones whose white residents stayed to reckon with their own history.

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.

“With the rise of factory farming, milk is now a most unnatural operation.”

The price we pay for cheap meat.

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

Previously: Conover discusses this story on the Longform Podcast.

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains.

The case for why a cup of joe is about to become a luxury item.

The case against agriculture.