Longtime readers of this column know at year’s end I pick what I believe is the top agricultural story. But 2025 is different. The top ag story isn’t singular, but rather deals with the contentious ...

Starting in 2020, consumers faced skyrocketing grocery store prices. A few factors were at play. The COVID-19 pandemic tied supply chains into knots. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

Investigate Midwest is a data-centric newsroom. Our weekly Data Harvests aim to visualize key agricultural statistics, and our investigative stories are often rooted in original data analysis. Of the ...

Residents of the United States and Europe have increasingly eaten more meat since 1960, but the two regions’ meat consumption ...

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 ...

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even lower in recent years by drought. Much of the country endured severe dry ...

Tyler Stafslien is a fourth-generation farmer who’s worked his family’s land in central North Dakota for about 20 years.

From a new presidential administration and sweeping changes at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to the world’s largest retailer entering the beef industry and unchecked water use by a giant poultry ...

Starting in 2020, consumers faced skyrocketing grocery store prices. A few factors were at play. The COVID-19 pandemic tied supply chains into knots. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

These photos document the year’s most defining agriculture and labor stories, from wind farm projects and rising land values near Walmart’s headquarters to poultry farm expansion, Chicago’s food ...

Soybeans sit in storage, farm bankruptcies are rising, and total farm debt continues to climb. By nearly every measure, American farmers are struggling. Experts say financial pressures are expected to ...