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#AgAlerts: Small towns struggle; pesticide buffer zones; farm bankruptcies up

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 5, 2019

The current large farms, utilizing far fewer farms than in the past has created population loss that threatens scores of small towns that sprouted on the prairie in a different time, when larger numbers of small farmers depended on them.

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

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

Opinion

Opinion: A potentially new organic foods rule that consumers can sink their teeth into

Now there's a chance to right some of these wrongs. Last month USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register looking to improve organic integrity. The National Organic Program; Strengthening Organic Enforcement rule aims to provide greater certainty for consumers that when a product says it's organic it actually is organic.

Rural America

At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on race

This article was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit journalism organization. When Xavier Morgan first enrolled in the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences in 2010, he wasn’t necessarily interested in farming.

From the USDA

Farmers to Families Food Box Program Reaches 75 Million Boxes Delivered

(Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 75 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SEEDS OF DESPAIR: Isolated, and with limited access to mental-health care, hundreds are dying by suicide.

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#agalerts

#AgAlerts: Small towns struggle; pesticide buffer zones; farm bankruptcies up

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 5, 2019

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