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Investors and pension funds are buying up farmland. What happens to the land itself?

08.04.2020

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A few farmers get huge USDA relief payments while many struggle for pennies

07.30.2020

by H. Claire Brown

New Bayer-engineered seed is resistant to five different types of pesticide

07.10.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

Florida farm workers endure 116 dangerously hot working days every growing season. Laws to protect them have failed three years in a row.

07.07.2020

by Sam Bloch

For many migrant teens in California, school closures led to work in the fields

06.23.2020

by Elizabeth Aguilera

Dicamba has killed tens of millions of trees across the Midwest and South

06.22.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

In apparent rejection of federal court, EPA allows continued dicamba use

06.10.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

Controversial herbicide dicamba no longer legal, federal court rules

06.05.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

Shorter, warmer winters are killing Georgia peaches. Three new varieties could help fix that.

05.20.2020

by Jessica Fu

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