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Articles from investigatemidwest.org

Bill calls for $2 million annually to shore up local food supply chains (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-3-26

Graphic: U.S. consumers spent more on food in 2022 than ever before. Even after adjusting for inflation, the amount Americans spent on food — at home and at restaurants and bars — reached the highest figure recorded by the USDA. (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-2-2 U.S. Inflation

Turkey growers left out of USDA payment reform say the decision is 'devastating' (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-2-2 Turkey

How Jesús Salas documents the legacy of Wisconsin farmworkers – and his own (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-1-25

Federal audit: More information on foreign-owned agriculture land needed. The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently made six recommendations on how USDA can improve its reporting on foreign-owned land across the country. (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-1-24 U.S.

Graphic: Fertilizer prices reach a record high (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-1-20

Accidents and emergency calls mount at Archer Daniels Midland plants in Decatur in past year (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-1-20

Spilling Bill's beans: Tech billionaire spent $113 million on Nebraska farmland. Bill Gates' Nebraska neighbors don't know he owns the soybean field down the road. Here's the story of his spending spree, including the massive loan he took out against his land. (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-1-17 Bill Gates

Secret Acres: Boom or bubble? High farmland prices encourage investors, concern farmers (investigatemidwest.org)
2024-1-4

Graphic: With no avian flu outbreaks, egg prices drop (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-7-14

With billions on the table for water infrastructure, small communities risk being left out to dry. Billions of federal infrastructure dollars are on the table, but will the small-town water systems that need the money most get help? (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-7-8

Graphic: Farm bankruptcies hit record low in 2022. Government subsidy programs for farmers boosted farm income and helped reverse previous years of upward trending farm bankruptcies. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-7-1

The cost of growth: Fertilizer companies cash in while farmers and communities struggle. Claims of market manipulation drive national concern over fertilizer industry consolidation. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-6-30

Minnesota opens investigation into possible wage theft at recently-closed HyLife Foods plant (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-6-15

JBS's cybersecurity was unusually poor prior to 2021 ransomware attack, internal homeland security records show. Overall, food processing companies are vulnerable to cyberattacks, experts said. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-6-14

Lost in translation: How USDA barriers leave immigrant farmers and ranchers behind. Federal agriculture funding is a vital resource, but immigrant producers face language and cultural obstacles to benefiting from it. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-5-26 Immigration

Food waste is in the eye of the beholder. “Upcycling” is becoming a movement (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-5-26

Graphic: Last year, a Minnesota pork plant employed more H-2B workers than any other meatpacker. HyLife Foods, which filed for bankruptcy last month, employs 500 people through a temporary visa program. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-5-18

As the trucker shortage deepens, some groups are trying to make it easier to become a driver (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-5-12

United States, Mexico at odds over Mexico's ban of genetically modified corn. Mexico's president wants to protect his country's heritage by limiting imports of GMO corn. The U.S. isn't backing down. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-3-17 U.S. Mexico Ban

Proposed independent contractor rule could turn the Big Poultry tournament system on its tail feathers (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-2-10

Graphic: U.S. ag industry has increased its foreign investments in past decade, government data shows (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-2-10 U.S.

'Immense sense of pride': Iowa farm owned by Black family for 158 years. The Western family owns one of only about 1,700 Iowa Heritage Farms, which means a farm in the same family for at least 150 years. Theirs is likely the only such farm owned by a Black family. (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-2-9

Farmers endured a rough year, but fertilizer companies cashed in (investigatemidwest.org)
2023-1-4

5 things to know about the new DOL complaint about child labor in meatpacking plants (investigatemidwest.org)
2022-11-22

Low Mississippi River has barges running aground, farmers' crops piling up (investigatemidwest.org)
2022-10-15

Column: It's time to put an end to tractor dealer embedded software license agreements (investigatemidwest.org)
2022-7-28

Bayer is 0-2 at US Supreme Court on glyphosate certiorari … and a storm is brewing (investigatemidwest.org)
2022-7-19

Graphic: Sales of cow's milk continues decades-long decline (investigatemidwest.org)
2022-7-15

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