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By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON This project was funded by The Lumpkin Foundation.Join us in December for a panel discussion on carbon capture in the Midwest. Click here to sign up.. Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, has received $281 million in federal tax dollars since 2009 for carbon capture and storage projects to combatclimate change.
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
MORE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. BEEF PROCESSORS RAISES FOOD Antitrust lawsuits. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association isn’t the only organization eyeing Marfrig with skepticism. National Beef and its Brazilian owners were named as defendants, alongside Tyson, JBS and Cargill, in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on October 16.. The complaint, brought by Pacific Agri-Products, Inc., a California-based food JOHNATHAN HETTINGER, AUTHOR AT INVESTIGATE By Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | March 2, 2021. Seresto, one of the most popular flea and tick collars in the country, has been linked to hundreds of pet deaths, tens of thousands of injured animals and hundreds of harmed humans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents show. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL An Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news outlets across seven states found that rural Midwest hospitals have reduced services or merging with larger health systems in an effort to deal with financial and regulatory pressures. Only two of those Midwestern hospitals were in Illinois, but accessing mental health services inrural
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
AGRICULTURE GRAIN REGULATORY SERVICES PROGRAM Susan Montee, JD, CPA Missouri State Auditor auditor.mo.gov AGRICULTURE Grain Regulatory Services Program Report No. 2010-90 August 2010 auditor.mo.govINVESTIGATE MIDWEST
By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON This project was funded by The Lumpkin Foundation.Join us in December for a panel discussion on carbon capture in the Midwest. Click here to sign up.. Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, has received $281 million in federal tax dollars since 2009 for carbon capture and storage projects to combatclimate change.
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
MORE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. BEEF PROCESSORS RAISES FOOD Antitrust lawsuits. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association isn’t the only organization eyeing Marfrig with skepticism. National Beef and its Brazilian owners were named as defendants, alongside Tyson, JBS and Cargill, in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on October 16.. The complaint, brought by Pacific Agri-Products, Inc., a California-based food JOHNATHAN HETTINGER, AUTHOR AT INVESTIGATE By Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | March 2, 2021. Seresto, one of the most popular flea and tick collars in the country, has been linked to hundreds of pet deaths, tens of thousands of injured animals and hundreds of harmed humans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents show. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL An Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news outlets across seven states found that rural Midwest hospitals have reduced services or merging with larger health systems in an effort to deal with financial and regulatory pressures. Only two of those Midwestern hospitals were in Illinois, but accessing mental health services inrural
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
AGRICULTURE GRAIN REGULATORY SERVICES PROGRAM Susan Montee, JD, CPA Missouri State Auditor auditor.mo.gov AGRICULTURE Grain Regulatory Services Program Report No. 2010-90 August 2010 auditor.mo.gov OPINION: COURTS NEED TO END BIG MEAT DATA SHARING Big Meat's secret weapon is a company called Agri Stats. Every week a bunch of Big Meat companies send Agri Stats a raft load of internal sales documents which Agri Stats merges into a industry wide sales report and sends back to subscribers. Agri Stats and those reports are at the heart of numerous lawsuits alleging that the reporting system allows Big Meat to participate in illegal GRAPHIC: ACRES IN FEDERAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM HAVE Since 2007, the number of acres the government has paid farmers and ranchers to conserve has declined. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program subsidizes the removal of environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production. But, between 2007 and 2016, the enrollment cap set by the farm bill shrank, allowing fewer farmers to participate, according to an FOR FARMLAND CONSERVATION, IT COMES DOWN TO WHO OWNS IT TOLONO — Lin Warfel puts farmland owners in central Illinois into two categories: Those with a deep connection and desire to preserve their land, and those obsessed with short-term money. The 80-year-old still owns the land that’s been in his family since his great-grandfather arrived in Champaign County in the 1800’s. After farming it for decades, he now rents the corn and soybean EPA TAKES STEPS TO ALLOW CONTINUED USE OF PESTICIDES The Trump administration in recent days took steps toward continuing to allow the use of two popular pesticides linked to developmental issues in children. In both cases, the agency weakened its metrics for assessing human health protections. On Sept. 18, the EPA approved the continued use of atrazine, the second most commonly sprayed herbicidein
USDA REPORT: BEEF PRICES SPIKE AFTER PANDEMIC DECLARED USDA report: Beef prices spike after pandemic declared. Consumer panic over food shortages and lack of demand for restaurant food sent prices rising, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report found. The Department of Agriculture released a report July 22 summarizing the impact of a monthslong closure of a Tyson beef processing plant and the COVID EPA DOCUMENTS SHOW DICAMBA DAMAGE WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY Nearly 5,600 farmers reported dicamba damage to Bayer and BASF, makers of dicamba, from 2017-2019, and the EPA estimates this could be as much as a 25-fold underreporting of incidents. A USDA repor t found that 65,000 soybean fields (4 percent of all soybean farms) across 4.1 million acres were damaged in 2018 alone. MIGRANT FARMWORKERS ARE OFTEN FORCED TO LIVE AND WORK IN About Investigate Midwest. Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL With farmers facing increasing stress and depression, Midwestern states and national farm groups are making more efforts to better provide services to alleviate the high rate of suicide among the agriculture industry. Yet in rural areas, this care is more of achallenge.
JURY AWARDS $265 MILLION TO BADER FARMS IN LAWSUIT AGAINST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A federal jury found in favor of Bader Farms on all counts in a lawsuit against Bayer and BASF. On Friday, the jury awarded $15 million of the requested $20.9 million in damages requested by Bader Farms. On Saturday, the jury also awarded Bader Farms $250 million in punitive damages. The BREAKING DOWN THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE IN THE U.S The standard rate of glyphosate use on crops is .75 pounds per acre; however, as weeds grow taller, manufacturers recommend as much as 1.5 pounds per acre, according to Dupont Pioneer. While estimates show the largest corn and soybean producing states hovered around that rate, the states with smaller soybean and corn crops used much more.INVESTIGATE MIDWEST
By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON This project was funded by The Lumpkin Foundation.Join us in December for a panel discussion on carbon capture in the Midwest. Click here to sign up.. Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, has received $281 million in federal tax dollars since 2009 for carbon capture and storage projects to combatclimate change.
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. REGULATION ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF AGRICULTURAL LAND: ASEE MORE ON INVESTIGATEMIDWEST.ORG RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. KRAFT, MONDELEZ AGREED TO PAY $16 MILLION FOR ALLEGEDLY Two of the biggest food companies in the U.S. were fined a $16 million penalty for allegedly manipulating the wheat market for its own gain as part of a settlement agreement reached in August. When the federal agency posted a news release about it, the two food companies complained the agency broke its part of the agreement. BREAKING DOWN THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE IN THE U.S The standard rate of glyphosate use on crops is .75 pounds per acre; however, as weeds grow taller, manufacturers recommend as much as 1.5 pounds per acre, according to Dupont Pioneer. While estimates show the largest corn and soybean producing states hovered around that rate, the states with smaller soybean and corn crops used much more. DOWDUPONT SPLIT OFF ITS AGRICULTURE BUSINESS; HERE’S WHAT A new spinoff from DowDupont could mean fewer seed and pesticide options for farmers, who are already facing mounting challenges that include low commodity prices, poor weather conditions and a growing trade war. On June 1, DowDuPont separated its agricultural chemical and seed business into a standalone company called Corteva Agriscience. Dow Chemical and Dupont MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
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By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON This project was funded by The Lumpkin Foundation.Join us in December for a panel discussion on carbon capture in the Midwest. Click here to sign up.. Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, has received $281 million in federal tax dollars since 2009 for carbon capture and storage projects to combatclimate change.
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. REGULATION ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF AGRICULTURAL LAND: ASEE MORE ON INVESTIGATEMIDWEST.ORG RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. KRAFT, MONDELEZ AGREED TO PAY $16 MILLION FOR ALLEGEDLY Two of the biggest food companies in the U.S. were fined a $16 million penalty for allegedly manipulating the wheat market for its own gain as part of a settlement agreement reached in August. When the federal agency posted a news release about it, the two food companies complained the agency broke its part of the agreement. BREAKING DOWN THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE IN THE U.S The standard rate of glyphosate use on crops is .75 pounds per acre; however, as weeds grow taller, manufacturers recommend as much as 1.5 pounds per acre, according to Dupont Pioneer. While estimates show the largest corn and soybean producing states hovered around that rate, the states with smaller soybean and corn crops used much more. DOWDUPONT SPLIT OFF ITS AGRICULTURE BUSINESS; HERE’S WHAT A new spinoff from DowDupont could mean fewer seed and pesticide options for farmers, who are already facing mounting challenges that include low commodity prices, poor weather conditions and a growing trade war. On June 1, DowDuPont separated its agricultural chemical and seed business into a standalone company called Corteva Agriscience. Dow Chemical and Dupont MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
ABOUT THE CENTER
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is an independent, nonprofit newsroom devoted to educating the public about crucial issues in the Midwest with a special focus on agribusiness and related topics such as government programs, environment and energy. Started in 2009 by journalist Mike Sherry, the Center provides training and education for students, professional journalists OPINION: COURTS NEED TO END BIG MEAT DATA SHARING Big Meat's secret weapon is a company called Agri Stats. Every week a bunch of Big Meat companies send Agri Stats a raft load of internal sales documents which Agri Stats merges into a industry wide sales report and sends back to subscribers. Agri Stats and those reports are at the heart of numerous lawsuits alleging that the reporting system allows Big Meat to participate in illegal FOR FARMLAND CONSERVATION, IT COMES DOWN TO WHO OWNS IT TOLONO — Lin Warfel puts farmland owners in central Illinois into two categories: Those with a deep connection and desire to preserve their land, and those obsessed with short-term money. The 80-year-old still owns the land that’s been in his family since his great-grandfather arrived in Champaign County in the 1800’s. After farming it for decades, he now rents the corn and soybean GRAPHIC: ACRES IN FEDERAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM HAVE Since 2007, the number of acres the government has paid farmers and ranchers to conserve has declined. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program subsidizes the removal of environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production. But, between 2007 and 2016, the enrollment cap set by the farm bill shrank, allowing fewer farmers to participate, according to an RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
MORE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. BEEF PROCESSORS RAISES FOOD Antitrust lawsuits. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association isn’t the only organization eyeing Marfrig with skepticism. National Beef and its Brazilian owners were named as defendants, alongside Tyson, JBS and Cargill, in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on October 16.. The complaint, brought by Pacific Agri-Products, Inc., a California-based food MIGRANT FARMWORKERS ARE OFTEN FORCED TO LIVE AND WORK IN About Investigate Midwest. Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL An Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news outlets across seven states found that rural Midwest hospitals have reduced services or merging with larger health systems in an effort to deal with financial and regulatory pressures. Only two of those Midwestern hospitals were in Illinois, but accessing mental health services inrural
FOR DICAMBA LAWSUITS, BADER VERDICT IS JUST THE BEGINNING For dicamba lawsuits, Bader verdict is just the beginning. The $265 million verdict issued last week against German agribusiness giants Bayer and BASF is just the beginning of a new legal battle between the companies and thousands of farmers. Since 2017, Monsanto and BASF officials have denied that its new dicamba weed killers are prone to SLAUGHTERHOUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY: A COLLABORATIVE MAP Slaughterhouses across the country: A collaborative map. In rural Noel, Mo., the elementary school has become the safety net for the children whose parents work at the Tyson chicken plant. More than 90 percent of them qualify for free or reduced lunch. Three-quarters of their parents are immigrants from places like Mexico, Myanmar, thePacific
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By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON This project was funded by The Lumpkin Foundation.Join us in December for a panel discussion on carbon capture in the Midwest. Click here to sign up.. Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, has received $281 million in federal tax dollars since 2009 for carbon capture and storage projects to combatclimate change.
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. REGULATION ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF AGRICULTURAL LAND: ASEE MORE ON INVESTIGATEMIDWEST.ORG RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. KRAFT, MONDELEZ AGREED TO PAY $16 MILLION FOR ALLEGEDLY Two of the biggest food companies in the U.S. were fined a $16 million penalty for allegedly manipulating the wheat market for its own gain as part of a settlement agreement reached in August. When the federal agency posted a news release about it, the two food companies complained the agency broke its part of the agreement. BREAKING DOWN THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE IN THE U.S The standard rate of glyphosate use on crops is .75 pounds per acre; however, as weeds grow taller, manufacturers recommend as much as 1.5 pounds per acre, according to Dupont Pioneer. While estimates show the largest corn and soybean producing states hovered around that rate, the states with smaller soybean and corn crops used much more. DOWDUPONT SPLIT OFF ITS AGRICULTURE BUSINESS; HERE’S WHAT A new spinoff from DowDupont could mean fewer seed and pesticide options for farmers, who are already facing mounting challenges that include low commodity prices, poor weather conditions and a growing trade war. On June 1, DowDuPont separated its agricultural chemical and seed business into a standalone company called Corteva Agriscience. Dow Chemical and Dupont MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
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By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON This project was funded by The Lumpkin Foundation.Join us in December for a panel discussion on carbon capture in the Midwest. Click here to sign up.. Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, has received $281 million in federal tax dollars since 2009 for carbon capture and storage projects to combatclimate change.
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. REGULATION ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF AGRICULTURAL LAND: ASEE MORE ON INVESTIGATEMIDWEST.ORG RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. KRAFT, MONDELEZ AGREED TO PAY $16 MILLION FOR ALLEGEDLY Two of the biggest food companies in the U.S. were fined a $16 million penalty for allegedly manipulating the wheat market for its own gain as part of a settlement agreement reached in August. When the federal agency posted a news release about it, the two food companies complained the agency broke its part of the agreement. BREAKING DOWN THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE IN THE U.S The standard rate of glyphosate use on crops is .75 pounds per acre; however, as weeds grow taller, manufacturers recommend as much as 1.5 pounds per acre, according to Dupont Pioneer. While estimates show the largest corn and soybean producing states hovered around that rate, the states with smaller soybean and corn crops used much more. DOWDUPONT SPLIT OFF ITS AGRICULTURE BUSINESS; HERE’S WHAT A new spinoff from DowDupont could mean fewer seed and pesticide options for farmers, who are already facing mounting challenges that include low commodity prices, poor weather conditions and a growing trade war. On June 1, DowDuPont separated its agricultural chemical and seed business into a standalone company called Corteva Agriscience. Dow Chemical and Dupont MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
ABOUT THE CENTER
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is an independent, nonprofit newsroom devoted to educating the public about crucial issues in the Midwest with a special focus on agribusiness and related topics such as government programs, environment and energy. Started in 2009 by journalist Mike Sherry, the Center provides training and education for students, professional journalists OPINION: COURTS NEED TO END BIG MEAT DATA SHARING Big Meat's secret weapon is a company called Agri Stats. Every week a bunch of Big Meat companies send Agri Stats a raft load of internal sales documents which Agri Stats merges into a industry wide sales report and sends back to subscribers. Agri Stats and those reports are at the heart of numerous lawsuits alleging that the reporting system allows Big Meat to participate in illegal FOR FARMLAND CONSERVATION, IT COMES DOWN TO WHO OWNS IT TOLONO — Lin Warfel puts farmland owners in central Illinois into two categories: Those with a deep connection and desire to preserve their land, and those obsessed with short-term money. The 80-year-old still owns the land that’s been in his family since his great-grandfather arrived in Champaign County in the 1800’s. After farming it for decades, he now rents the corn and soybean GRAPHIC: ACRES IN FEDERAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM HAVE Since 2007, the number of acres the government has paid farmers and ranchers to conserve has declined. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program subsidizes the removal of environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production. But, between 2007 and 2016, the enrollment cap set by the farm bill shrank, allowing fewer farmers to participate, according to an RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING Medicaid provides health insurance for some of the poorest people in the state. According to healthinsurance.org, there are 606,670 people covered by Medicaid in Illinois as of July 2018. “High-Medicaid nursing homes are found in both urban and rural areas. As one would expect, they tend to be concentrated in poorer areas,” Grabowskisaid.
MORE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. BEEF PROCESSORS RAISES FOOD Antitrust lawsuits. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association isn’t the only organization eyeing Marfrig with skepticism. National Beef and its Brazilian owners were named as defendants, alongside Tyson, JBS and Cargill, in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on October 16.. The complaint, brought by Pacific Agri-Products, Inc., a California-based food MIGRANT FARMWORKERS ARE OFTEN FORCED TO LIVE AND WORK IN About Investigate Midwest. Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL An Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news outlets across seven states found that rural Midwest hospitals have reduced services or merging with larger health systems in an effort to deal with financial and regulatory pressures. Only two of those Midwestern hospitals were in Illinois, but accessing mental health services inrural
FOR DICAMBA LAWSUITS, BADER VERDICT IS JUST THE BEGINNING For dicamba lawsuits, Bader verdict is just the beginning. The $265 million verdict issued last week against German agribusiness giants Bayer and BASF is just the beginning of a new legal battle between the companies and thousands of farmers. Since 2017, Monsanto and BASF officials have denied that its new dicamba weed killers are prone to SLAUGHTERHOUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY: A COLLABORATIVE MAP Slaughterhouses across the country: A collaborative map. In rural Noel, Mo., the elementary school has become the safety net for the children whose parents work at the Tyson chicken plant. More than 90 percent of them qualify for free or reduced lunch. Three-quarters of their parents are immigrants from places like Mexico, Myanmar, thePacific
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By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON About Investigate Midwest. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, online newsroom offering investigative and enterprise coverage of agribusiness,big ag and related issues through data analysis, visualizations, in-depth reports and interactive webtools.
RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING There are 52 counties in Illinois with a population of under 30,000, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, and 45 of which has three or fewer nursing homes. Pope, Pulaski and Putnam, three counties with over 16,000 people in total, have no nursing homes within the counties. “Usually the rural areas have few nursing homes in the region, andmany
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. MORE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. BEEF PROCESSORS RAISES FOOD Antitrust lawsuits. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association isn’t the only organization eyeing Marfrig with skepticism. National Beef and its Brazilian owners were named as defendants, alongside Tyson, JBS and Cargill, in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on October 16.. The complaint, brought by Pacific Agri-Products, Inc., a California-based food JOHNATHAN HETTINGER, AUTHOR AT INVESTIGATE By Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | March 2, 2021. Seresto, one of the most popular flea and tick collars in the country, has been linked to hundreds of pet deaths, tens of thousands of injured animals and hundreds of harmed humans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents show. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL An Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news outlets across seven states found that rural Midwest hospitals have reduced services or merging with larger health systems in an effort to deal with financial and regulatory pressures. Only two of those Midwestern hospitals were in Illinois, but accessing mental health services inrural
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
AGRICULTURE GRAIN REGULATORY SERVICES PROGRAM Susan Montee, JD, CPA Missouri State Auditor auditor.mo.gov AGRICULTURE Grain Regulatory Services Program Report No. 2010-90 August 2010 auditor.mo.govINVESTIGATE MIDWEST
By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 29, 2021. Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located DESPITE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN TAX DOLLARS, ADM’S CARBON About Investigate Midwest. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, online newsroom offering investigative and enterprise coverage of agribusiness,big ag and related issues through data analysis, visualizations, in-depth reports and interactive webtools.
RURAL RESIDENTS FACE DIMINISHING ACCESS TO QUALITY NURSING There are 52 counties in Illinois with a population of under 30,000, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, and 45 of which has three or fewer nursing homes. Pope, Pulaski and Putnam, three counties with over 16,000 people in total, have no nursing homes within the counties. “Usually the rural areas have few nursing homes in the region, andmany
SIX YEARS AND TUSCOLA RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON CRONUS Oct. 29, 2014. Cronus Chemical announced site selection and construction of a new $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola on Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. The plant was expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 175 permanent jobs. Cronus CEO Erzin Atac said he hoped to break ground on the project in spring 2015. MORE FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. BEEF PROCESSORS RAISES FOOD Antitrust lawsuits. U.S. Cattlemen’s Association isn’t the only organization eyeing Marfrig with skepticism. National Beef and its Brazilian owners were named as defendants, alongside Tyson, JBS and Cargill, in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on October 16.. The complaint, brought by Pacific Agri-Products, Inc., a California-based food JOHNATHAN HETTINGER, AUTHOR AT INVESTIGATE By Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | March 2, 2021. Seresto, one of the most popular flea and tick collars in the country, has been linked to hundreds of pet deaths, tens of thousands of injured animals and hundreds of harmed humans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents show. SEEKING A CURE: MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS SCARCE IN RURAL An Institute for Nonprofit News investigation by 12 news outlets across seven states found that rural Midwest hospitals have reduced services or merging with larger health systems in an effort to deal with financial and regulatory pressures. Only two of those Midwestern hospitals were in Illinois, but accessing mental health services inrural
SALE OF TIMBER LAND WENT MOSTLY TO A HANDFUL OF FOREIGN A newsletter sent to investors by JP Morgan in 2008 showed an analysis by the company that found that an investment of $100 in 1987 would’ve generated $2,000 by 2008. The analysis showed that about 20 TIMOs controlled $50 billion worth of timberland, with both foreign and domestic investors. That number has since grown. MONSANTO’S CLIMATE CORPORATION SELLING CROP INSURANCE Monsanto’s Climate Corporation selling crop insurance business. Monsanto is best known for its seeds and pesticides, but the St. Louis-based agribusiness also is active in data collection and analysis. Its team captain in that agricultural data game is The Climate Corporation, bought by Monsanto back in 2013 for $932 million.In addition to
AGRICULTURE GRAIN REGULATORY SERVICES PROGRAM Susan Montee, JD, CPA Missouri State Auditor auditor.mo.gov AGRICULTURE Grain Regulatory Services Program Report No. 2010-90 August 2010 auditor.mo.gov OPINION: COURTS NEED TO END BIG MEAT DATA SHARING Big Meat's secret weapon is a company called Agri Stats. Every week a bunch of Big Meat companies send Agri Stats a raft load of internal sales documents which Agri Stats merges into a industry wide sales report and sends back to subscribers. Agri Stats and those reports are at the heart of numerous lawsuits alleging that the reporting system allows Big Meat to participate in illegalABOUT THE CENTER
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is an independent, nonprofit newsroom devoted to educating the public about crucial issues in the Midwest with a special focus on agribusiness and related topics such as government programs, environment and energy. Started in 2009 by journalist Mike Sherry, the Center provides training and education for students, professional journalists FOR FARMLAND CONSERVATION, IT COMES DOWN TO WHO OWNS IT TOLONO — Lin Warfel puts farmland owners in central Illinois into two categories: Those with a deep connection and desire to preserve their land, and those obsessed with short-term money. The 80-year-old still owns the land that’s been in his family since his great-grandfather arrived in Champaign County in the 1800’s. After farming it for decades, he now rents the corn and soybean GRAPHIC: EXPECT TO PAY MORE FOR FOOD IN 2021 In 2020, the price of food rose more than 3% over the price the year before. This includes both food eaten out and food cooked at home, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Consumers saw the price of meat spike in 2020 as well with beef and veal prices increasing 9.6%, poultry prices increasing 5.6% and pork pricesincreasing 6.3%
EPA TAKES STEPS TO ALLOW CONTINUED USE OF PESTICIDES The Trump administration in recent days took steps toward continuing to allow the use of two popular pesticides linked to developmental issues in children. In both cases, the agency weakened its metrics for assessing human health protections. On Sept. 18, the EPA approved the continued use of atrazine, the second most commonly sprayed herbicidein
MIGRANT FARMWORKERS ARE OFTEN FORCED TO LIVE AND WORK IN About Investigate Midwest. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, online newsroom offering investigative and enterprise coverage of agribusiness,big ag and related issues through data analysis, visualizations, in-depth reports and interactive webtools.
JURY AWARDS $265 MILLION TO BADER FARMS IN LAWSUIT AGAINST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A federal jury found in favor of Bader Farms on all counts in a lawsuit against Bayer and BASF. On Friday, the jury awarded $15 million of the requested $20.9 million in damages requested by Bader Farms. On Saturday, the jury also awarded Bader Farms $250 million in punitive damages. The EPA DOCUMENTS SHOW DICAMBA DAMAGE WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY Nearly 5,600 farmers reported dicamba damage to Bayer and BASF, makers of dicamba, from 2017-2019, and the EPA estimates this could be as much as a 25-fold underreporting of incidents. A USDA repor t found that 65,000 soybean fields (4 percent of all soybean farms) across 4.1 million acres were damaged in 2018 alone. KRAFT, MONDELEZ AGREED TO PAY $16 MILLION FOR ALLEGEDLY Two of the biggest food companies in the U.S. were fined a $16 million penalty for allegedly manipulating the wheat market for its own gain as part of a settlement agreement reached in August. When the federal agency posted a news release about it, the two food companies complained the agency broke its part of the agreement. BREAKING DOWN THE USE OF GLYPHOSATE IN THE U.S The standard rate of glyphosate use on crops is .75 pounds per acre; however, as weeds grow taller, manufacturers recommend as much as 1.5 pounds per acre, according to Dupont Pioneer. While estimates show the largest corn and soybean producing states hovered around that rate, the states with smaller soybean and corn crops used much more.Skip to content
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AMONG BIG AG FACILITIES, ADM’S DECATUR PLANT EMITS MOST CARBON DIOXIDE, EPA DATA SHOWS BY IGNACIO CALDERON, USA TODAY NETWORK AGRICULTURE DATA FELLOW, INVESTIGATE MIDWEST | JUNE 3, 2021 Among agricultural facilities with emissions tracked by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, this ADM plant has emitted the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — by far — over the past decade, according to an Investigate Midwest analysis of agency data.OUR LATEST
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‘I DON’T KNOW WHO WILL STILL BE HERE IN FIVE YEARS’: TEXAS VINEYARDS SUE OVER DICAMBA DAMAGE By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest| June 4, 2021
The lawsuit raises the question of what’s next for specialty crop farmers, many of whom have said dicamba damage limits their ability to grow their products and make a living.*
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GRAPHIC: EXPECT TO PAY MORE FOR FOOD IN 2021 – EXCEPT FOR EGGS By Pam Dempsey, Investigate Midwest | June 3, 2021 In 2020, the price of food rose more than 3% over the price the year before. This includes both food eaten out and food cooked at home, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Consumers saw the price of meat spike in 2020 as well with beef and veal prices increasing 9.6%, poultry prices increasing 5.6% and pork pricesincreasing 6.3%
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WATCHDOG GROUP FINDS TOXIC ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ IN POPULAR FLEAAND TICK COLLARS
By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest| June 2, 2021
The EPA said it is reviewing the findings as part of a larger investigation into PFAS contamination in pesticide products.*
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OPINION: TYSON’S ATTEMPTS TO LITIGATE COVID IN FEDERAL COURTS ASCAM
By Dave Dickey, Commentator | May 26, 2021 All through 2020, Big Meat and the Trump White House abused immigrants and low-income people working at the nation's slaughterhouses, all but physically forcing them to work in a cauldron pot of coronavirus. The White House named meat packers essential workers while Big Meat failed to do enough to protect its on-line employees from COVID-19. Predictably, avoidable illness and death followed. Now comeslitigation.
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EPA WATCHDOG: TRUMP OFFICIALS INTERFERED IN 2018 DICAMBA DECISION By Johnathan Hettinger, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting |May 24, 2021
Senior Trump Environmental Protection Agency officials changed career scientists’ analyses and conclusions in order to support the re-registration of the herbicide dicamba in 2018, according to a report from a federal watchdog published Monday.*
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IN WHAT’S LIKELY A FIRST, A MEATPACKING PLANT EMPLOYEE WON A COVID-19 WORKERS’ COMP CASE By Madison McVan, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting| May 21, 2021
Many workers compensation claims have been denied throughout the pandemic. But the court ruled the JBS employee was infected with COVID-19 at the plant and should be compensated for lost wages afterhe fell ill.
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GRAPHIC: EAST ASIA LEADS WORLD IN PURCHASES OF U.S. MEAT By Madison, McVan, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | May19, 2021
Since 2016, meat and livestock exports to China have increased 75 percent. China displaced Mexico last year as the 2nd-largest buyer ofU.S. meat.
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OPINION: THE COURTS’ AWFUL DITHERING ON CHLORPYRIFOS MUST END By Dave Dickey, Commentator | May 18, 2021 After looking at the facts, anyone with half a brain would say the pesticide chlorpyrifos has no place in agriculture. The Environmental Protection Agency first registered the Dow Chemical and DuPont concoction way back in 1965 to kill bugs on a host of crops from corn and soybeans to fruit and nut trees, broccoli, cauliflower, cranberries and Brussels sprouts. And for good measure it was also heavily applied on golf courses.*
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SECRET SUBSIDIES: PAYMENTS TO FARMS ALLOWED TO STRETCH FAR BEYONDRURAL AMERICA
By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jackson Hicks and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV | May 18, 2021 Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are directed each year to the country’s farms to help keep agriculture afloat when times get tough. But the federal government is sending millions of these subsidy dollars in the names of people who live and work hundreds of miles from the farms that get the money.*
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GRAPHIC: AMERICANS ARE DRINKING LESS COW MILK AND MORE PLANT-BASEDALTERNATIVES
By Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellow, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | May 12, 2021 In the past half century, people started drinking less cow milk, and recently more and more people have joined in the trend, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.*
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‘UNIQUE HISTORICAL FEAR’ OF CARLE HEALTH BILLING PRACTICES MAY LEAD SOME TO SKIP COVID-19 VACCINE, HEALTH OFFICIALS WORRY By Kyra Senese, Documenting COVID-19 project, Brown Institute for Media Innovation | May 12, 2021 The hospital's decades-long reputation for aggressively billing patients has resurfaced anew during the pandemic.*
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OPINION: BADER FARMS V. MONSANTO COULD OPEN FLOODGATE OF THIRD-PARTYLAWSUITS
By Dave Dickey, Commentator | May 11, 2021 As one would expect, Bader Farms v. Monsanto Company – as the first dicamba-related case to go to trial – was about as high profile as it gets. Especially after the jury punched Monsanto right between the eyes in awarding Bader Farms $265 million for dicamba damage to the farm's peach orchards.*
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COVID-19 OUTBREAK AT SMITHFIELD FOODS MEATPACKING PLANT IN MISSOURI LIKELY LARGER THAN ORIGINALLY KNOWN, OSHA DOCUMENTS SAY By Madison McVan, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting| May 10, 2021
Smithfield Foods has refused to say how many employees have fallen ill at its Milan, Missouri, plant. But OSHA records say at least two workers died and possibly as many as 300 had COVID-19 or had come into contact with someone who did.*
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‘THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE CONTAMINATION’: RESIDENTS OF WISCONSIN REGION STRUGGLE WITH AFTEREFFECTS OF DANGEROUS ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ By John McCracken, for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting| April 29, 2021
Four years after a Wisconsin facility disclosed water contamination in the surrounding community, residents and locals deal with the impact of PFAS or 'forever chemicals.'*
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GRAPHIC: A 40-YEAR LOOK AT THE BUSIEST CANAL ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER By Pam Dempsey, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April29, 2021
Millions of tons of corn, wheat and soybeans travel down the Mississippi River each year to be shipped all over the world from New Orleans. As of April 17, 641,000 tons of grain passed through Lock 27, a canal that runs more than two-dozen miles long and is located just outside of St. Louis in Granite City, Illinois. DATABASE: TRACKING COVID-19’S IMPACT ON MEATPACKING WORKERS ANDINDUSTRY
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission. INFECTED, EXHAUSTED, DISTRESSED : A YEAR OF COVID-19 IN MEATPACKINGPLANTS
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All through 2020, Big Meat and the Trump White House abused immigrants and low-income people working at the nation's slaughterhouses, all but physically forcing them to work in a cauldron pot of coronavirus. The White House named meat packers essential workers while Big Meat failed to do enough to protect its on-line employees from COVID-19. Predictably, avoidable illness and death followed. Now comeslitigation.
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