Health
Color of meat doesn’t gauge safety
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Most people gauge the doneness of their hamburgers by the color of the meat. But despite browning, E. coli could still be living in your burger. These eight burgers show you why.
Events
Agribusiness workshop concludes
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More than two dozens journalists from throughout the U.S. gathered in Champaign, IL for an intense three-day workshop on covering big agribusiness companies.
Review sessions, resources and tip sheets here.
Events
Agribusiness Workshop a Success
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More than two dozens journalists from throughout the U.S. gathered in Champaign, Ill. for an intense three-day workshop on covering big agribusiness companies.
Events
Apply now for all-expense paid reporting workshop
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The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and co-sponsor Investigative Reporters and Editors are seeking applications for an all-expense paid workshop on covering agribusiness
Agribusiness
Poor housing, wage cheats still plague Midwest migrant farm workers
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A lack of enforcement or inspections and legal loopholes are leaving migrant workers in Iowa vulnerable, cheated of wages and living in substandard housing, an IowaWatch investigation revealed.
Agribusiness
Slaughterhouses across the country: A collaborative map
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The meat industry has once been concentrated in cities like Chicago and Kansas City. But it had left for small towns in rural areas, which were now struggling to provide the necessary social services to the immigrants who followed. How could we begin to show those demographic changes? And what could we do about the fact that there was no readily available list of the biggest slaughterhouses? This interactive map starts to answer those questions.
Agribusiness
Climate change threatens crop insurance costs; Farmers struggle with GMO seeds
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In 2011, Eric Herm's cantaloupes exploded. A fourth-generation cotton farmer in West Texas, Herm was experimenting with a home garden to help feed his family during the onset of a drought in the area. Blistering heat, including 100 degree days as early as May, was wilting Herm's cotton—and in the end, it turned his melons into pressure cookers.
Events
Covering agribusiness: a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting Webinar
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On Sept. 18, 2013, The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and Poynter Institute conducted a Webinar on covering agribusiness. The Webinar included information about finding documents and people for stories, along with information about coming up with story ideas in any area.