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Environment

Most nitrate, coliform in Kewaunee County wells tied to animal waste

By Sarah Whites-Koditschek/Wisconsin Public Radio | March 6, 2019

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.

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.

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Opinion

  • November elections are a national referendum on climate change

    It’s no secret to anyone paying attention that the POTUS is the nation’s science and climate change denier-in-chief. It’s a given undisputed fact at this point. But sometimes behind the scene what government does compared to what the POTUS says are two vastly different things. Four years ago the 2016 Republican Party Platform was crystal clear when it comes to governmental action on climate change:

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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