Every morning right now, I'm walking into a pasture eye-to-eye with a 1,200-pound mama who's not entirely sure I should be that close to her calf. I'm tagging. She's watching. Sometimes she lets me work. Sometimes she takes two steps...

I've spent a year showing you how a handful of corporations captured our food system. This week, I get to write about one of the best ideas I've seen for actually taking it back. Last Tuesday, a $45 billion deal put Hellmann's,...

Forty percent of American farmland is owned by someone over sixty-five. When a ranch doesn't have a successor, it doesn't get passed down. It gets sold. To a developer. To an investment fund. To someone who might never run a cow...