Glyphosate data analysis shows connection to most aggressive forms of cancer across the nation’s agricultural heartland.

Brazil, now a leading exporter of beef products to the U.S., also did not sell into the country before 2016. Since then, the country has surpassed long-term trade partners such as Japan, Honduras and ...

Note: This story has been updated with new information from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about its timeline for filling open CAFO specialist positions. The growth of industrial farms ...

The number of private sector workers declined in states such as Illinois and Minnesota after mass ICE presence, according to ...

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, ...

While nearly the same amount of corn and soybean acres have been planted every year since the mid-1990s, the use of pesticides in Illinois has increased exponentially, according to USDA data.

From the docks of the Port of Santos, a 58-terminal complex covering an area the size of 1,500 American football fields, ships loaded with soybeans prepare to set sail for China. Less than 45 miles ...

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even lower in recent years by drought. Much of the country endured severe dry ...

The Renewable Fuel Standard, passed in the mid 2000s, requires that gasoline be blended with ethanol, which in the United States comes almost entirely from corn. That mandate drives up demand and ...

More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators to notify them before spraying. Advocates say a new notification proposal ...

This month, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the nation’s largest meatpacking companies for potential collusion and price fixing. “Action must be taken ...