Over the past year, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting has covered agribusiness from the lens of migrant labor to ethanol spills to climate change to Big Ag mergers.
Below is a look back at our coverage in pictures.
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Tilling under a cell phone tower near Illiopollis, Illinois, on April 14, 2016
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Planting in southern Champaign County, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 2016.
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Planting in southern Champaign County, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 2016.
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Planting in southern Champaign County, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 2016.
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Planting in southern Champaign County, Illinois on Friday, May 6, 2016.
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Alvaro Porras Loza 50 and his wife Maricruz Martinez Hernandez, 41 at their seasonal home in New Haven, MO on Saturday, June 25, 2016.
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Gabriel Ruiz and Sara Ruiz at their home in Waverly, MO on Tuesday, June 21, 2016.
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Agustin Chavarria, 41, wife Francisca Lopez, 42, children: in Tiger shirt - Claudio, grey shirt, Angel, Felipe in orange shirt and Jose, 11 months at their temporary home on an orchard just outside of Lexington, MO. on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.
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Bedbug bites -- on Jose. The apartment of: Jose Veja: The young man in the black shirt with the beg-bug bites on his back. From Texas. Age 36.
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A sign outside a Dupont-Pioneer facility. Agribusiness powerhouses have gobbled up hundreds of small-scale seed companies since 1990, research from Texas A&M University’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center reveals.
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University of Illinois Crop Sciences Professor Andrew Leakey walks trhough a corn field on July 29, 2016, at the SoyFACE facility in Savoy, Ill.
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A tanker at the Fire Service Institute, Champaign, Ill. on Sept. 7, 2016.
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Steam from the ethanol plant in Gibson City comes up from behind unrelated grain elevators on Friday, February 27, 2015. photo by Darrell Hoemann/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
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Harvest in western Champaign County, Il on Wednesday, October 5, 2016.
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Harvest in western Champaign County, Il on Wednesday, October 5, 2016.
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