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In Virginia, an organic chicken empire is growing—using old barns big poultry companies left empty

03.09.2020

Andrew Jenner

After historic floods, USDA green lights $285 million in disaster aid for sugar beet farmers

03.05.2020

by Jessica Fu

California farmworkers struggle with high cost of housing

02.27.2020

by Kate Cimini

Reporter’s notebook: Five key takeaways from peach farmer’s dicamba lawsuit

02.20.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

Half of North Dakota’s corn is still in the field. USDA calls it “on-farm storage”

02.11.2020

by Christopher Walljasper

Dicamba on trial: Monsanto officials limited testing on its own plots

02.04.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

It’s Iowa caucus day. So why did we ask 20 California farmers what they’re thinking today?

02.03.2020

by Mackie Jimbo

Dicamba on trial: Internal docs show Monsanto, BASF prepared for drift complaints prior to dicamba launch

01.30.2020

by Johnathan Hettinger

America is about to experience a sugar shortage

11.29.2019

by Jessica Fu

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