How the modern pig farm came to be.

Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.

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

“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”

Why a cow being airlifted by a helicopter says so much about the Swiss economy.

The story of a machine.

The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains.

On the life of illegal immigrant fruit pickers.

Without 1 million people on the ground, on ladders, in bushes—armies of pickers swooping in like bees—all the tilling, planting, and fertilizing of America's $144 billion horticultural production is for naught. The fruit falls to the ground and rots.

A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for the story of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is cultivated in America.