Caspar Dowdy, a University of Missouri student, and Paloma Sanchez-McGee, a recent University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule next month on whether lawsuits can be brought against pesticide and herbicide makers over claims their products have caused cancer. The court heard arguments ...

American farmers rely on a fertilizer supply chain that stretches far beyond U.S. borders. Although the country produces most of its nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers domestically, it still imports ...

Loyalty programs have been part of the seed and chemical industry — typically, the seeds and pesticides required to grow commodity crops are sold together — for decades. Some have termed them “velvet ...

The Sipcam Agro facility in Wayne County, Mississippi, formulates and packages paraquat. It has also released tens of thousands of pounds of the chemical into the air. Researchers have linked paraquat ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during Tuesday's Congressional hearing. screenshot courtesy of U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's YouTube channel Bayer promised to “provide a small thanks” to ...

Illinois farmworkers are often exposed to extreme heat while detasseling corn. Sometimes the heat index can exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit. photo taken in Mansfield, Illinois on Aug. 20, 2013. Since ...

Cory Hart, a lifelong beef farmer from Chaseley, North Dakota, has seen more of his fellow ranchers leave or retire from the business in the past two decades than at any time before, with no new ...

This article originally appeared in Sentient Media. When Iowa resident Chris Henning was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, her youngest sister and brother-in-law had already died of cancer 13 years ...

We’re hosting virtual listening sessions this spring and summer to hear what’s missing, what matters, and where we should dig deeper. We’re hosting virtual listening sessions this spring and summer to ...