Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 NYT > Top Stories By: Robert D. McFadden 1 September 2026 at 03:16 A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. © Steve Hebert for The New York TimesAuthor Wendell Berry in 2012. The historian Page Smith hailed him as “a prophetic American voice of our day.”
With Shoppers Wary of Illness, Farmers Destroy Millions of Heads of Lettuce NYT > Top Stories By: Soumya Karlamangla 29 August 2026 at 12:00 After a drop in demand driven by a nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, California growers are plowing lettuce back into the soil and laying off workers.
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