Many acres of wetlands across the vast Mississippi River basin would lose federal protection under a new rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Agricultural and builders’ groups ...
The primary way the federal government ensures families don’t go hungry is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or ...
It’s called the “California Effect.” When it comes to agricultural law, regulation and policy the state has often set trends ...
This month, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the nation’s largest meatpacking companies ...
More than a third of the world’s corn supply comes from America’s Corn Belt, a region of sprawling grain fields stretching from Nebraska to Ohio. But most of the seed varieties planted in those ...
More than a third of the world’s corn supply comes from America’s Corn Belt, a region of sprawling grain fields stretching from Nebraska to Ohio. But most of the seed varieties planted in those ...
When Monsanto (now Bayer) launched its dicamba-resistant soybeans in 2017, the move allowed farmers to spray dicamba directly on the state’s dominant crop without killing them — a shift that drove up ...
Farmworkers begin the morning apple harvest at Apex Farm in Shelburne, Massachusetts, on Oct. 16, 2019. USDA photo by Lance Cheung via Flickr This series is supported by funding from the Chicago ...
This story is is supported by funding from the Chicago Region Food Systems Fund. President Trump’s deportation of more than half a million people, along with his ending of several programs that ...
The Agri Star meat and poultry processing plant in Postville, Iowa had the most cases of EPA enforcement of water pollution, air pollution and other negligence charges in Iowa. The plant was also the ...
This story was originally published by The Frontier. It was just before 3 a.m. in March when the hum of machinery at the OK Foods poultry plant in Heavener, Oklahoma, was broken by a haunting scream, ...
OK Foods poultry processing facility in Heavener, Oklahoma, is shown. OK Foods is owned by the Mexican company Industrias Bachoco. photo by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier This story was originally ...