Brazil, now a leading exporter of beef products to the U.S., also did not sell into the country before 2016. Since then, the country has surpassed long-term trade partners such as Japan, Honduras and ...
The growth of industrial farms in America’s dairyland is outpacing regulators tasked with reviewing permits and overseeing compliance with waste regulations. Wisconsin currently has 370 active or ...
The number of private sector workers declined in states such as Illinois and Minnesota after mass ICE presence, according to ...
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer promised to cut red tape so they could access another: workers on temporary visas. It ...
Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies rose 46% in 2025 — to 315 filings compared to 216 in 2024, marking the third year in a row that filings increased, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The ...
This story was originally published by The New Lede. In an opening salvo aimed at convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to curtail costly Roundup litigation, Bayer is citing support from President Donald ...
NextEra Energy Resources, a Florida-based energy company, has an office in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. photo by Ben Felder, Investigate Midwest NextEra Energy’s 2,000-acre solar farm under construction ...
April Hemmes began farming soybeans in Iowa in the mid-1980s, just as the agricultural economy was in crisis and many farms were lost. Now, when she speaks to her younger peers, she hears a common ...
Investigate Midwest’s editor-in-chief Ben Felder appeared Feb. 19 on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River with the launch of his latest investigation into pesticide use and cancer rates in the ...
This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. A majority of the top pesticide-using counties in the U.S. have cancer rates above the national average. For years, ...
Lisa Lawler wasn’t surprised when diagnosed with breast cancer in 2025. Her mother had breast cancer and died in 2016. It seemed like cancer had become a common diagnosis for many of her neighbors and ...
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