EditorialFarmers planting soy beans in a recently harvested wheat field in Luohe, Henan Province, China on June 15, 2023. (Qilai Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialKay Burkhart, a farmer in Valley Springs, S.D., doing chores on Dec. 21, 2022. She and her husband, Arny Erickson, raise cattle, corn and soybeans on their farm, which is along a proposed carbon pipeline route. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialKay Burkhart, a farmer in Valley Springs, S.D., doing chores on Dec. 21, 2022. She and her husband, Arny Erickson, raise cattle, corn and soybeans on their farm, which is along a proposed carbon pipeline route. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialKay Burkhart, a farmer in Valley Springs, S.D., doing chores on Dec. 21, 2022. She and her husband, Arny Erickson, raise cattle, corn and soybeans on their farm, which is along a proposed carbon pipeline route. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialKay Burkhart, a farmer in Valley Springs, S.D., doing chores on Dec. 21, 2022. She and her husband, Arny Erickson, raise cattle, corn and soybeans on their farm, which is along a proposed carbon pipeline route. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialA field near highway 448, in the Mississippi Delta, a vast flood plain, boasts rich soil where cotton, soybeans and corn are among the crops grown near Indianola, Miss. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times)
EditorialKellen Nelson unloads soybeans into a semitruck on his farm, Triple Brook Farms, outside of Osseo, Wis. on Oct. 18, 2019. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times)
EditorialJapanese rock made of silk with gray-blue background with rice bundles and flower branches in red with green and red with blue, filled with silk cotton wool and lined with yellow silk, Japanese rock of silk with gray-blue background covered with rice b...