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Just in time for Christmas, the Trump administration has finalized a rule to kick 700,000 hungry Americans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps – the...

Last week, the Department of Agriculture announced a new round of cash payments to farmers to ease their losses from President Trump's trade war with China, which has cut off many growers from their...

The grass is always greener for “fairway farmers” who, despite living next to golf courses instead of crop land, have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from the first round of...

Fifteen members of an agribusiness council that advised Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign have received $2.2 million from the federal bailout program for farmers hurt by the president's trade...

Farm bailout payments intended to offset the impacts of President Trump's trade war have instead flowed to an estimated more than 9,000 “city slickers” who live in the nation's largest cities, an...

Farm bailout payments designed to offset the impacts of President's Trump's trade war have overwhelmingly flowed to the largest and most successful farmers, according to EWG's analysis of the latest...

President Trump's tariffs are a disaster for American soybean farmers, effectively cutting off access to China, their largest market. The Department of Agriculture's bailout program has not helped...

Nearly 3,500 farms have received more than $125,000 each in bailout payments intended to offset the impacts of President Trump's trade war, according to an EWG analysis of Department of Agriculture...

As farmers struggle with a plummeting farm economy in the wake of President Trump's trade war, the administration is rushing to send a second round of cash payments – reportedly totaling $15 billion...

Farm bailout payments intended to offset the impacts of President Trump's trade war have instead flowed to more than 1,000 “city slickers” who live in the nation's largest cities, an EWG analysis of...

Farm subsidies should help farmers, not billionaires and beach bums, right?

Nearly 20,000 people living in the nation's 50 largest cities received federal farm subsidies in 2017, according to a new EWG analysis.

EWG found that 245 people who have received taxpayer-funded farm subsidies or disaster payments for 32 straight years currently reside in the nation's 50 largest cities, according to an analysis of...

A 52-story skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York City is the world headquarters for JPMorganChase, the largest bank in the U.S. But according to data from the Department of Agriculture, it's also the...

Will the next federal farm bill reopen the loopholes that once allowed millionaires and billionaires – stockbroker Charles Schwab, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, banking tycoon David Rockefeller, Sr...

It's not hard to see the differences between the terrible, partisan House farm bill and the bipartisan Senate farm bill

Few federal programs are more badly in need of reform than the federal crop insurance program. The Senate will debate some long overdue reforms this week.

A new amendment to the Senate farm bill that limits crop insurance subsidies for the wealthiest farmers would save taxpayers more than $490 million dollars over the next 10 years.

The two farm bills being debated by the House and Senate this month could not be more different.

Almost a year ago, we identified six steps Congress could take to address the serious public health threats posed by farm pollution. Since then, the pollution problems posed by agriculture – including...