The new leader of the U.S. Senate’s agriculture committee, Arkansas’ John Boozman, has several ties to meatpacking behemoths, ...

Investigate Midwest is pleased to announce Juan Vassallo has joined its editorial staff as an Oklahoma-based reporter ...

Deere & Company, one of America’s largest farm equipment manufacturers, was sued Wednesday by federal and state governments for not allowing farmers to repair machines they own — an allegedly unfair ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Corn and soybeans are two of America’s most lucrative cash crops. Corn is used in soft drinks and processed snacks, but most corn is used to produce ethanol, a heavily subsidized industry. Soybeans ...

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 ...