The Food and Drug Administration has not performed its legally required number of food safety inspections each year since ...

Corn, the nation’s largest crop, is produced for a variety of uses, including food for humans and animals, alcohol for fuel ...

Dust swirled as the 83-pound drone launched from a clearing near a Nebraska cornfield. With its four propellers humming, ...

Seeing how we all managed to survive another trip around the sun, it’s time again for this columnist to predict which ...

Preston Arnold on his farm near Sikeston, Missouri, where he raised chickens before market changes on April 17, 2024. photo by Daniel Byrd, for Investigate Midwest This story was updated Dec. 18, 2024 ...

Preston Arnold on his farm near Sikeston, Missouri, where he raised chickens before market changes on April 17, 2024. photo by Daniel Byrd, for Investigate Midwest Despite remaining tight-lipped about ...

The only way to significantly reduce phosphorus levels in Oklahoma’s eastern waterways is to ban the use of chicken litter as fertilizer, a soil scientist testified last month in a nearly 20-year ...

This farmworker holds a temporary H-2A visa to work in tobacco fields in North Carolina. photo by Federica Narancio, Univision The nation’s agriculture sector, which relies heavily on undocumented ...

Data-driven journalism is at the core of Investigate Midwest’s mission. It fuels our reporting on corporate agriculture. In addition to our deeply reported stories, a chart or graphic can go a long ...