The writing is on the wall. Should John Deere choose to defend itself in court rather than attempt to reach a settlement, it ...

Kraft Heinz recently distributed more than 367,000 pounds of turkey bacon that may be contaminated with listeria. On July 2, ...

Two piglets jostled in the barnyard as Jess D’Souza stepped outside. Neither youngster seemed to be winning their morning ...

This story was originally published by The New Lede. Agricultural operations across Iowa are a leading cause of significant ...

Cancer rates are growing in many farming communities. Multiple studies indicate a potential link to widespread pesticide use.

Most U.S. states have experienced a decline in the number of households using the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Investigate Midwest’s Monica Cordero explored why President Donald Trump’s second trade war could hit U.S. farmers harder ...

At nearly half of the meatpacking plants in the Midwest, more than 40% of the population living within one mile have an income less than two times the poverty level. At nearly four in ten meatpacking ...

TimelineJS EmbedThis story was updated Dec. 18, 2024, for clarification and to correct misspellings. DEXTER, Missouri – On an early August morning in 2023, Shawn Hinkle received a call from one of his ...

“We can’t sit back and say, ‘Wow. Somebody may not like this,’” said Kamyar Enshayan, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa. “Knowing what we ...

In the 1990s, a slew of lawsuits related to the act hit the courts, said Peter Carstensen, a professor of law emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and award-winning author on antitrust law. “The ...

The EPA and Syngenta have said the results of animal studies on paraquat are not relevant to the everyday exposure levels of workers using the chemical, partly because large amounts of paraquat are ...