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A Minnesota pork processing plant employed 500 workers on temporary work visas in 2022, more than any other meatpacking plant that year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor. HyLife Foods sponsored hundreds of visas to fill jobs at its plant in the small town of Windom, Minnesota. The company used the federal […]

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GRAPHIC: Last year, a Minnesota pork plant employed more H-2B workers than any other meatpacker

Tras la quiebra, los trabajadores con permiso laboral en una planta procesadora de carne de Minnesota se enfrentan a un futuro incierto

In bankruptcy’s wake, a Minnesota meatpacking plant’s visa workers face an uncertain future

For years, farmers milked cows by hand. Today, technology is doing more of the work.

Wild ‘super pigs’ are rooting toward Minnesota. The state wants to keep them out.

Minnesota regulators approve $256M solar farm for farmland in Dodge County

Fighting drought, potato farmers in northern Minnesota overdrew their water permits by tens of millions of gallons

‘Carbon Express’ pipeline runs into skepticism in Minnesota farm country

‘A public health crisis in the making’: Agriculture pollutes underground drinking water in Minnesota. Well owners pay the price.

Scaling up: 4 ways hog farms changed since the 1990s

Lo que se pierde en la traducción: Como las barreras producidas por el USDA (Departamento de Agricultura de los EEUU) dejan abandonados a los agricultores y los ganaderos inmigrantes

Food waste is in the eye of the beholder

Lost in translation: How USDA barriers leave immigrant farmers and ranchers behind

Cheap flea-and-tick products elusive? Lawsuit claims it’s intentional.

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