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Climate change is making water more scarce in some areas, but water-intensive meat production isn’t slowing down.
Suffering from Parkinson’s disease or cancer, European farmworkers experience inadequate recognition and failing compensation schemes.
In Europe, scientists have blown the whistle on farmworkers' exposure to pesticides for years. They remain unheard.
The U.S. has put various protections in place to keep African Swine Fever out to protect the more than $8 billion pork industry.
With millions of members, the American Farm Bureau Federation says it represents "divergent opinions." But the farmers outside its circle believes it leans "heavily towards corporate interests."
Rural areas are losing grocery stores but gaining other kinds of food retailers, such as dollar stores, according to the USDA.
Federal law requires disclosure, but those records are incomplete.
Loopholes in state residency requirements have led to an influx of out-of-state investment through "ghost owners."
Bottlenecks at ports and labor shortages are leading to higher prices for needed farming materials, such as fertilizer, pesticides and equipment.
Ranchers must pay $1 per head of cattle sold to an organization some say works against their interests. The organization, known as a checkoff, says it represents producers of all sizes.