agriculture
Apply now for the USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellowship
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We are seeking applicants for the USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellowship. Deadline to apply is November 2, 2020
ag economics
For Midwestern farmers, the workforce and supply chain are top issues in ‘flash recession’
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In agriculture, when a lack of rain combines with very high temperatures and sunny days, the rapid dryness is called a “flash drought.” Well, this economic downturn related to fears about the coronavirus pandemic could be a flash recession, said Scott Irwin, an agricultural economics professor at the University of Illinois. Irwin, along with four other professors from the University of Illinois Agricultural and Consumer Economics department, addressed how the coronavirus pandemic could affect agriculture in the Midwest in a webinar on Friday.
#agalerts
#AgAlerts: Climate change; pesticides; Gates Foundation Ag Center
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Missouri agriculture officials are struggling to address a backlog of complaints from farmers who allege that dicamba-based herbicide drift from another farm has damaged their crops. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has about 600 pending pesticide investigations. Some of them date back to 2016, the year that Bayer-owned Monsanto began selling its dicamba-tolerant soybeans.
Agribusiness
EPA fines Frontier Ag over Clean Air Act violations
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, reached a settlement Monday with Frontier Ag Inc. concerning three facilities in Kansas that were violating the Clean Air Act in Oct. 2018.
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, GateHouse Media announce agriculture data journalism fellowship
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GateHouse Media, LLC and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting are excited to embark on a new partnership through the creation of an agriculture data journalism fellowship funded by GateHouse.
Opinion
Opinion: Successful climate change policy will demand brilliant leadership
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Whoever emerges as leading U.S. lights to develop policy will need to take into consideration just how the deck is stacked against implementing climate change policy that can make a difference and what cracks to exploit to save Earth from itself.
Agribusiness
Recent flooding costs grain trader Archer Daniels Midland millions in losses
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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.
Environment
Most nitrate, coliform in Kewaunee County wells tied to animal waste
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The latest findings from a study of drinking water wells and their surroundings finds manure from cows that is stored or spread on farm fields poses the highest risk for certain contaminants.
Food for thought
Opinion: Don’t expect full resolution of U.S-China trade war in March
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When it comes to China rarely are things as they seem, there is no deal till there is a deal, and even after the ink dries China is fully capable of ignoring what they promised if it suits their national interests.
Government
Years later, little action on recommendations for Iowa’s pesticide inspections
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Problems the Iowa State Auditor’s office identified in a 2012 audit and subsequent reports and recommendations for investigating Iowa’s pesticide use violations still linger years later.