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More than 300 food and farm groups ask U.S. attorney general to stop agricultural mega mergers

By Robert Holly | February 16, 2017

Hundreds of food and farm groups are calling on recently confirmed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step in and block a wave of billion-dollar mega mergers sweeping across America’s agriculture industry.

Agribusiness

Harvest Public Media: Why you should care about ‘Big Ag’ companies getting bigger

By Amy Mayer & Luke Runyon/Harvest Public Media | November 1, 2016

Five of the six biggest companies that produce and sell seeds and chemicals to the world’s farmers are pursuing deals that could leave a market dominated by just three giant, global companies. Harvest Public Media reports on the deals in this new story.

Agribusiness

Harvest Public Media: How ‘Big Ag’ came to be

By Amy Mayer & Luke Runyon/Harvest Public Media | November 1, 2016

The massive industry that supplies farmers with the tools to raise crops is on the brink of a watershed moment, according to Harvest Public Media.

Agribusiness

Weeding out competition: Farmers left paying steep prices as seed firms merge

By Robert Holly | October 27, 2016

Central Illinois corn and soybean farmer Norbert Brauer said he remembers when he could plant an acre of corn for about $100 total — but that was nearly three decades ago.

Agribusiness

Opinion: DuPont, Dow Chemical prepare for merger

By Dave Dickey/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | January 7, 2016

Two of the United States’ most storied corporations – DuPont and Dow Chemical – want to merge in the second half of 2016 in a deal worth an estimated $120 billion.

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

USDA photo by Preston Keres

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

‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits.

‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits.

From City Hall to the White House, our investigation found, officials let Triumph Foods stay open as hundreds of workers got coronavirus. Four died.

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  • Opinion: Big Meat must provide transparency for COVID response

    Well, times are changing, and Big-Meat won't be able to be so caviler to the shiny new House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis chaired by U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn. The South Carolina Democrat wasted no time after his appointment to demand Big-Meat to account for its COVID response.

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