Agribusiness
Graphic: Among agribusinesses, dairies received the most loans from federal Paycheck Protection Program
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About 1 percent of all PPP loans went to agribusinesses.
Agribusiness
Graphic: We’ve been tracking meatpacking plant outbreaks. Not all are accounted for.
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Because in some instances only aggregate data has been released, only about half of meatpacking plants with outbreaks have been publicly identified.
Agribusiness
Graphic: Americans drinking far less milk than in the past
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Americans drink much less fluid milk now than decades ago - in about 50 years we've reduced our consumption by 100 pounds per year on average.
back wages
Graphic: Agricultural workers still denied millions in wages each year
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Tens of thousands of agricultural workers have been denied wages by their employers — a violation of labor laws — over the past two decades, according to Department of Labor data.
Agribusiness
Pilgrim’s Pride reports second quarter loss, dropping sales
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Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, one of the largest meatpacking companies in the U.S., reported second quarter earnings due to challenges posed by COVID-19, with shares falling 4% in after-hours trading on Wednesday.
Agribusiness
Six years and Tuscola residents still waiting on Cronus fertilizer plant
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The company behind the proposal, Cronus Chemicals Inc. has periodically announced new construction dates, new business partners, new leadership and new cost estimates that still leaves the 250-acres of open field farmland undeveloped.
Agribusiness
Amid price-fixing indictment for poultry processors, growers say they continue to struggle
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While poultry processors have seen large profits, poultry growers — the farmers that care for the chickens while they’re maturing — have not shared in the wealth, current and former growers said.
Agribusiness
Four restaurant chains sue Tyson and Pilgrim’s Pride, saying companies fixed chicken prices
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Four restaurant chains have sued the country’s biggest poultry companies, including Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride, saying they conspired to inflate prices, manipulated price indices and restrained production.
Agribusiness
New Bayer-engineered seed raises questions among experts on the future of weed control
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A new genetically engineered corn seed designed by Bayer to be sprayed by up to five herbicides could represent the future of farming. But for how long?
Bayer
Roundup maker Monsanto settles for over $10 billion in class action lawsuit
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Bayer-owned Monsanto and law firms representing about 100,000 plaintiffs reached a settlement on Wednesday over the alleged cancer-causing effects of the popular herbicide Roundup.