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April 16, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19s-impact-on-meatpacking-workers-and-industry/The Trump Administration has paid farmers billions to offset losses from ongoing trade wars, but millions have also gone to an alternative farm lender.
Agrifund LLC, which does business as Ag Resource Management, or ARM, has received more trade mitigation money than anyone else, according to a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
December 26, 2019 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2019/12/26/the-largest-single-beneficiary-of-trumps-tariff-payments-an-alternative-farm-lender/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is an independent, nonprofit newsroom devoted to educating the public about crucial issues in the Midwest with a special focus on agribusiness and related topics such as government programs, environment and energy.
May 4, 2010 | https://investigatemidwest.org/about/Honeybee colonies' average yearly production has dropped 30 percent since 1995.
October 22, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/10/22/graphic-facing-challenges-honeybees-production-has-dropped-in-the-u-s/About 150 agricultural pesticides that the World Health Organization considers “hazardous” at some level to human health were used in the United States in 2017, according to U.S. Geological Survey data.
October 14, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/10/14/graphic-the-u-s-still-uses-many-pesticides-banned-in-other-countries/More money spent on processing means less money for farmers.
October 7, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/10/07/graphic-what-share-of-retail-sales-returns-to-farmers-depends-on-the-product/Between 1960 and 2017, the quantity of wasted food increased more than 230 percent, according to EPA data.
September 30, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/09/30/graphic-americans-throw-away-more-food-today-than-ever-before/There are less than half of the licensed dairy farms in the United States than nearly two decades ago, according to an analysis of USDA data.
September 23, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/09/23/graphic-there-are-now-half-as-many-dairy-farms-today-than-in-2003/In an August report, the CDC noted a difference between salaries employees in an office setting and the hourly workers on the production line.
September 16, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/09/16/graphic-design-of-south-dakota-meatpacking-plant-contributed-to-high-number-of-covid-19-cases-cdc-says/Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more Americans — and particularly Americans of color — have experienced limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
September 1, 2020 | https://investigatemidwest.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-has-plunged-more-people-of-color-into-food-insecurity/