Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer promised to cut red tape so they could access another: workers on temporary visas. It ...

NextEra Energy’s 2,000-acre solar farm under construction in northwest Oklahoma is set to become one of the state’s largest ...

Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies rose 46% in 2025 — to 315 filings compared to 216 in 2024, marking the third year in a row that filings increased, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The ...

This story was originally published by. In an opening salvo aimed at convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to curtail costly Roundup litigation, Bayer is citing support from President Donald Trump and U.S ...

April Hemmes began farming soybeans in Iowa in the mid-1980s, just as the agricultural economy was in crisis and many farms were lost. Now, when she speaks to her younger peers, she hears a common ...

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. A majority of the top pesticide-using counties in the U.S. have cancer rates above the national average. For years, ...

Investigate Midwest’s editor-in-chief Ben Felder appeared Feb. 19 on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River with the launch of his latest investigation into pesticide use and cancer rates in the ...

Increasingly, pesticides are being blamed for rising cancer rates across America’s agricultural communities. Hardin County, home to around 800 farms, has a pesticide use rate more than four times the ...

In 1975, the average cattle carcass weight — the combined average for steers and heifers after slaughter — was 615 pounds. By 2024, it had risen to 890 pounds, an increase of about 45%, according to U ...

An outcropping is seen along an ADA fishing trail at Lake Darling State Park in Brighton, Iowa, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. photo by Jim Slosiarek, The Gazette When Kim Hagemann moved to Iowa in the ...

Mary Ungs-Sogaard (left), donor relations manager, poses for a photo with Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest reporter, at the 2026 Iowa Newspaper Association Awards. Investigate Midwest received ...

The address for KB Dairy is the same address as an existing CAFO, De Saegher Dairy, and is owned by the same family. photo by Jeff Brooks-Gillies, The New Lede GRATIOT COUNTY, Michigan — Dennis ...