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Posts Tagged ‘Investigate Midwest’

Opening This Spring in Kansas: A High-Tech Lab Researching Livestock Diseases

By | April 7, 2022 | 0
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, joined by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), is briefed by National Bio and Agri-Defense Facility Site Project Manger Tim Barr about the status of the facility being built on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, Kansas, on May 30, 2018.

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.

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American Farm Bureau Federation Claims it’s the ‘Voice of Agriculture.’ Others Beg to Differ

By | February 16, 2022 | 0
American Farm Bureau Federation president Zippy Duvall spoke at the organization’s 2022 annual convention in Atlanta.

While the best-known, best-funded “voice” of farmers, the American Farm Bureau is far from the only one.

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Fertilizer Washes off Midwest Farm Fields and Taints Communities’ Drinking Water, Poisons Gulf of Mexico

By | December 10, 2021 | 0
A cornfield in Champaign County, Illinois.

As rainfall events become more intense and frequent, fertilizers applied to Midwestern farmland wash away, contaminating waterways near and far.

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As Regulations Vanish, One Missouri County is Ground Zero for Factory Farming Debate

By | March 30, 2021 | 0
Bert Wire's farm sits behind the "Farms Not Factories" sign near Chillicothe, Missouri,

The state eliminated local control over large animal feeding operations. Some rural residents want that power back.

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‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers

By | December 10, 2020 | 0
Will Glazik with his organic corn

Monsanto and BASF knew about dicamba’s propensity to harm farmers’ livelihoods and the environment before releasing the weed killer.

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