Posts Tagged ‘Investigate Midwest’
Opening This Spring in Kansas: A High-Tech Lab Researching Livestock Diseases
Construction is wrapping up at a new biological research lab in Manhattan, Kansas, where researchers will study vaccines and treatments for highly contagious diseases that affect livestock and humans.
Read MoreAmerican Farm Bureau Federation Claims it’s the ‘Voice of Agriculture.’ Others Beg to Differ
While the best-known, best-funded “voice” of farmers, the American Farm Bureau is far from the only one.
Read MoreFertilizer Washes off Midwest Farm Fields and Taints Communities’ Drinking Water, Poisons Gulf of Mexico
As rainfall events become more intense and frequent, fertilizers applied to Midwestern farmland wash away, contaminating waterways near and far.
Read MoreAs Regulations Vanish, One Missouri County is Ground Zero for Factory Farming Debate
The state eliminated local control over large animal feeding operations. Some rural residents want that power back.
Read More‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers
Monsanto and BASF knew about dicamba’s propensity to harm farmers’ livelihoods and the environment before releasing the weed killer.
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