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 ...
Beginning farmers are often described as the future of American agriculture. But the 2022 Census of Agriculture shows they ...
About a third of counties most dependent on farm labor for their economies had ICE arrests in 2025, more than in previous ...
The hunt was on. Having just returned to power in early 2025, President Trump had ordered agencies to root out government spending that promoted, in his view, “gender ideology extremism.” The problem ...
State records list roughly 11,000 regulated animal feeding operations. A yearlong effort using federal aerial imagery, satellite analysis and state records found more than 15,000 livestock facilities, ...
As new AI data centers spread across rural Oklahoma, residents are raising concerns about water use, secrecy and a loophole ...
For decades, the industry has recruited immigrants and refugees to perform the dangerous job of cutting America’s meat. Now, a small but growing number of plants are employing visa workers. Colored ...
State and local governments have paid more than half a billion dollars in tax breaks to meat processing companies over nearly 20 years to attract new processing plants, as industry-wide transformation ...