Furloughed Polar workers picket outside Polar's Caracas brewery, which shut down in April. They are protesting against the government, which has impeded Polar's ability to import barley. John Otis for NPR hide caption
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Monarchs spend their winters in the central mountains of Mexico before traveling up through the United States to Canada. Sandy and Chuck Harris/Flickr hide caption
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Kent Family Growers is located on a small parcel outside a college town in upstate New York. Farmers from California to North Carolina have complained of delays in the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural jobs. Lauren Rosenthal/NCPR hide caption
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Eddie Huang is a chef and restaurateur, a TV host and the author of two memoirs. Donald Traill/Invision/AP hide caption
Chef Eddie Huang On Cultural Identity And 'Intestine Sticky Rice Hot Dog'
The London Vegetable Orchestra strikes up a tune at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Christie Goodwin/Getty Images hide caption
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Is it sugar, or "evaporated cane juice"? The FDA says they're the same thing, folks. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
The price of tomatoes at Nigerian markets is going higher and higher as moths and their larvae wipe out much of the crop. George Osodi/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Feral hogs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are an invasive and hugely destructive species. Courtesy of Bill Lea hide caption
Andrew Heineman's twin brother, Marcus, pulls a cultivator across a different field where they will plant seed corn this year, another alternative they selected when the price of corn started to fall and a new seed corn plant opened up nearby. Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media hide caption
To Survive The Bust Cycle, Farmers Go Back To Business-School Basics
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To Survive The Bust Cycle, Farmers Go Back To Business-School Basics
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Beef sides hang in a chilling room at a slaughterhouse in Nebraska. Nati Harnik/AP hide caption
We Don't Know How Many Workers Are Injured At Slaughterhouses. Here's Why
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Tuesday
Patricia Gallagher (from left), who first proposed the tasting; wine merchant Steven Spurrier; and influential French wine editor Odette Kahn. After the results were announced, Kahn is said to have demanded her scorecard back. "She wanted to make sure that the world didn't know what her scores were," says George Taber, the only journalist present that day. Courtesy of Bella Spurrier hide caption