Highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, has been circulating the globe since 1996. The virus has grown more deadly to ...

When we last visited Texas’ claim that several of the state’s property owners didn’t have the right to sue for damages to ...

Welcome to the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, and thank you for pitching us. Our newsroom focuses on stories about Big Ag and its impact on labor (particularly migrant and immigrant labor ...

A little more than half of all farms in America have access to broadband, according to the US Census of Agriculture.

Which takes us to the shocking USDA announcement on March 25 that avian influenza has been detected for the first time ever in dairy cattle. A month later, on April 23, the Food and Drug ...

Investigate Midwest spent months investigating how the company’s decision to close plants across the country affected ...

Employees at Maharishi Vedic City Organic Farm adjust hundreds of threads for cucumber vines to grow on unhampered. photo by Donna Schill, for Investigate Midwest The “organic” label often hikes ...

Congress passed the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) in 1978 to better track ownership of U.S. crop, pasture and timber land. Under terms of the act, foreign interests are ...

Sharon Lavigne of RISE St. James speaks at a protest of the Americas Energy Summit in New Orleans on Jan. 19. photo by La’Shance Perry, The Lens Michael Regan cannot catch a break from Louisianans.