In Vicksburg, Mississippi, the south end of town near the municipal airport has no grocery stores, no food pantries. Mired in ...

U.S. farmers are likely staring down another year in the red, faced with a familiar cycle: rising costs and weakening markets ...

Less than two months ago, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its intent to unconditionally register three new ...

After the Civil War, the U.S. government promised 40 acres, either from abandoned plantations or unused land, to formerly ...

An Oklahoma rancher pouring out sack feed to his Angus and Charolais mix cattle in a pasture of dead grass caused by drought. photo from iStock * More intense droughts have led to less pasture land, ...

This article was originally published by The New Lede. EMMETSBURG, Iowa — Raised in rural Iowa, 71-year-old Maureen Reeves Horsley once considered her tiny hometown in the northwest part of the state ...

Unyielding is a University of Missouri School of Journalism project for Investigate Midwest. With billions of dollars at stake, Bayer has gone on the offensive. Billboards along major highways. A ...

For decades, the industry has recruited immigrants and refugees to perform the dangerous job of cutting America’s meat. Now, a small but growing number of plants are employing visa workers. Colored ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins testifies during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 23, 2025. photo by Aaron Schwartz, Sipa via AP ...

William Rutter, USDA plant pathologist and nematologist, examines sprouting plants for research on managing Meloidogyne enterolobii and other root-knot nematodes. This photo was taken at the U.S.

A farmer sprays pesticides, which are classification of substances utilized to protect crops, on May 21, 2025 in Senath, Missouri. photo by Michael Baniewicz, for Investigate Midwest Unyielding is a ...

The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick “like a punch to the face.” Walking through her wooded 38-acre donkey farm in central Oklahoma, Traywick suddenly found it hard to breathe as the ...