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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.

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Among Big Ag facilities, ADM’s Decatur plant emits most carbon dioxide, EPA data shows

By Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellow, Investigate Midwest | June 3, 2021

Among agricultural facilities with emissions tracked by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, this ADM plant has emitted the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — by far — over the past decade, according to an Investigate Midwest analysis of agency data.

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Despite hundreds of millions in tax dollars, ADM’s carbon capture program still hasn’t met promised goals

By Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 19, 2020

Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's largest agribusinesses, has yet to make good on its promise to capture a million tons of carbon a year at its Decature, Illinois, facility.

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#AgAlerts: Another milk bankruptcy; GM crops; Impossible Pork

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | January 14, 2020

Borden Dairy Co., one of America's oldest and largest dairy companies, on Monday became the second major milk producer to file for bankruptcy in the last two months.
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Recent flooding costs grain trader Archer Daniels Midland millions in losses

By Claire Hettinger / Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 3, 2019

Severe weather and flooding that impacted much of the Midwest are expected to cause multinational agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland to lose millions of dollars.

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Archer Daniels Midland wins arrest warrants over missing rice money

By Robert Holly | August 18, 2015

Arrest warrants have been issued for a Nicaraguan grains business owner and his daughter after the pair failed to pay $2.5 million to Archer Daniels Midland for import contracts. The Nicaraguan grains business allegedly failed to pay millions of dollars to Chicago-based agriculture superpower ADM for rice imports, according to Reuters.

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Corn refiners ready to take on the sugar industry

By Midwest Center Staff | June 26, 2015

The Corn Refiners Association is gearing up to take on the sugar industry. According to a June 24 Washington Post exclusive, the Corn Refiners Association plans on investing in a lobbying effort to take apart decades-old sugar subsidies and tax breaks. The Washington Post reported that the association recently hired 10 outside lobbyists.

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Move away from trans fat may boost ADM’s palm oil investments

By Robert Holly | June 24, 2015

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it would take significant steps toward eliminating trans fats in American food within the next three years. The move will likely change the way major food producers make popular foods, including some coffee creamers, frozen pizzas, refrigerated dough products and fast food. According to experts, this production change will be largely propelled by an increase in the demand for palm oil, a substitute made from certain tropical trees.

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Tax breaks, grants and ‘pay-to-play’ politics

By Robert Holly | May 12, 2015

Powerful agribusiness companies that regularly net billions in profits are major recipients of state and federal tax breaks, subsidies, grants and loans. Just seven of those companies have pocketed billions since 2000, according to government subsidy data from Good Jobs First. Tax experts say the companies get that money, at least in part, because of political muscle.

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Agribusiness companies capitalize on tax breaks, grants, subsidies and loans

By Robert Holly | May 12, 2015

Tens of millions of people live off of government welfare in the United States. Some say that giant agriculture corporations do, too. An analysis of data attained by the policy research organization Good Jobs First shows that just seven agribusinesses have received billions of dollars in state and federal grants, subsidies, loans and tax breaks throughout the past few decades. Critics call this vast pool of government funds "corporate welfare."

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