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Foreign investment in US cropland nearly triples in past decade, USDA data shows

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest | April 19, 2022

Growing foreign investment has spurred legislative action in states and Congress.

Agribusiness

TOP TAKEAWAYS: Five things to know from our investigation into Illinois’ monitoring of human pesticide exposure

By Midwest Center Staff | April 14, 2022

These are the most important things to know about our latest investigation.

Agribusiness

How Illinois’ ‘fragmented system’ of monitoring pesticide exposure ‘allows individuals to get poisoned over and over without any brakes’

By Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest, and Amanda Perez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America | April 14, 2022

A crew of farmworkers claimed they were sprayed with pesticides. What should have been a “rapid response” was a “big mess.”

OSHA and USDA should have collaborated more to protect meatpacking workers from COVID-19, government watchdog says

By Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest | April 5, 2022

An Office of Inspector General report released Tuesday concluded the two agencies could have done more to ensure the safety of meatpacking plant workers.

Department of Homeland Security

Opening this spring in Kansas: A high-tech lab researching livestock diseases

By Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest | March 30, 2022

At the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, researchers will try to find cures for and ways to prevent highly contagious diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease, affecting livestock and humans.

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EPA internally questioned its ability to properly regulate pet collars linked to tens of thousands of injury reports

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest | March 24, 2022

According to internal communication, EPA staff were also told to not mention in emails the popular Seresto collar, the source of myriad complaints.

Agribusiness

Shuttered offices, potentially high fertilizer costs: Here’s what the situation in Ukraine means for U.S. agriculture

By Johnathan Hettinger, Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest, and Amanda Perez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America | March 3, 2022

“We import 80% of the fertilizer we use from outside the U.S. so the situation in eastern Europe will affect those supply chain issues around the world," one farm bureau representative said.

Agribusiness

‘A pretty big sea change’: EPA says it will consider endangered species when approving new pesticides — without the threat of lawsuits

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest | February 24, 2022

Under the new approach, the EPA recently banned certain pesticides in more than a 100 U.S. counties.

Government

Promised debt relief, some Black farmers get collection notices

By April Simpson, Center for Public Integrity | February 18, 2022

Confusion, anxiety as USDA effort is in limbo.

Agribusiness

European pesticide victims left to fend for themselves

By Stéphane Horel and Staffan Dahllöf, Le Monde | February 16, 2022

Suffering from Parkinson’s disease or cancer, European farmworkers experience inadequate recognition and failing compensation schemes.

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Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.

The American Farm Bureau Federation claims it’s the ‘Voice of Agriculture.’ These groups beg to differ.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

SERESTO: what we’ve discovered so far about the popular collars linked to pet injuries and deaths

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