Agribusiness
GRAPHIC: There are now half as many dairy farms today than in 2003
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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.
Agribusiness
GRAPHIC: Design of South Dakota meatpacking plant contributed to high number of COVID-19 cases, CDC says
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In an August report, the CDC noted a difference between salaries employees in an office setting and the hourly workers on the production line.
Agribusiness
GRAPHIC: Industrialization has pushed out more and more chicken
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The pounds of chicken available to consumers on a per capita basis has increased more than 500 percent since 1909, according to USDA data.
Graphic of the Week
Graphic: COVID-19 has plunged more people of color into food insecurity
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more Americans — and particularly Americans of color — have experienced limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
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.