Graphic of the Week
GRAPHIC: Family farms received on average $2,167 in stimulus payments in 2020
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Overall, farm households received about $4.3 billion in pandemic aid from the federal government, according to the USDA.
Graphic of the Week
GRAPHIC: For family farms, most income comes from far afield
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Almost all farm households in 2019 derived some income from off-farm sources, such as pensions, investment income, or wages and salary from an off-farm job.
Environment
Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them.
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In Pembroke, the well-intended efforts of mostly white nature conservationists overlook one thing: The township’s Black farming community has never fully supported them. Now, a generations-old way of life is threatened by the push for conservation.
Agribusiness
‘Women in the industry have to work that much harder’
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The male-dominated industry of American agriculture has challenged women both on the field and in the industry. They have had their knowledge doubted, been passed over for promotions and have been told starting a family would complicate their success.
agriculture
Apply now for the USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellowship
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We are seeking applicants for the USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellowship. Deadline to apply is November 2, 2020
Emails: A week before Trump’s order protecting meat plants, industry sent draft language to feds
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Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Public Citizen and American Oversight show how industry helped shape a federal order to keep meat plants open during the pandemic.
Agribusiness
Cows likely to be culprit in 2019 E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, FDA finds
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Cows in the Salinas Valley area of California have been blamed for three E. coli outbreaks in late 2019 that sickened 188 people in at least 27 states, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report released in May.
A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots … And regulators aren’t doing anything about it.
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Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in Deaf Smith County, an impossibly flat stretch of the Texas Panhandle where cattle outnumber people 40 to 1. The 67-year-old farmer and rancher brings the vehicle to a stop at the field’s southern edge.
Announcing our first-ever audience engagement fellow, Anna Casey
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Illinois Humanities and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting jointly announced today that Anna Casey has been named their first-ever Audience Engagement Fellow. During the 12-month term of her Fellowship, Casey will work full-time with the Center, a Champaign-based nonprofit investigative newsroom focused on agriculture and agribusiness, to build dialogue with the community members and involve them more deeply in the reporting process.
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting wins fellowship for Big Ag project
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The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting has been selected by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute as one of six fellowship projects for 2017-2018 that will focus on filter bubbles, bite-size training and business-side analytics.