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)