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Rethink Food, Saving Food From Landfill

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Herbicide Drift and Its Impacts

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Courts Are Beginning to Address Water Quality Issues in Farm Belt

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What Technologies Are Available for Cleaning up PFAS?

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Why Isn’t the USDA Taking Bird Flu More Seriously?

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Protecting Our Streams, Protect Our Water Supply

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Wisconsons Water Is Laden With PFAS, Republicans Want to Give the Polluters Immunity

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Who Owns Our Water? Who Is Getting to Sell It? Gambling in Water Futures Is Real.

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Everything You Need to Know about Horseshoe Crabs!

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Antibiotic Resistance Continues Apace, H1N1 Jumps Species! WTH???

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Cage Free Laying Goes Mainstream! Only 10% in 2014, Now Edging Over 40%

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Just How Much Money Are We Actually Wasting in Our Efforts to Remediate Our Polluted Waterways Like the Gulf of Mexico or the Chesapeake?

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Just How Much DOES Industry Influence Science at the University Level? Turns Out, Quite a Bit.

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Lets Review the Farm Bill With Tom Philpott

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Who Is Minding Our Groundwater?

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Barons! You Thought the Age of the Robber Baron Was Over? Guess Again!

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Pushing Back on the Poultry Industry Is Not for the Faint of Heart.

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Farm Belt States Are Getting Serious About Agro-Chem and Cancer

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How the American Diet is Feeding The Groundwater Crisis, redux!

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The EPA Finally Re-Considers Its Regulations on Effluent From Meat Processing.

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Is One Man Going to Finally Going to Change the Way Iowa Deals With Its Waterways?

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Bio-Digesters: The Race Is On!

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The Ethanol Scam

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Cancer Road in Minnesota

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Watering Down Organic Standards

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Farmland for Farmers, Not Farmland for Hedge Funds

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Electric Dog Collars on Cattle? This Rancher Has Ditched the Fence.

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Farm Bill 2023: Get the Skinny

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PFAS! What Are They? Why Are They in Everything Including Us?

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The Swine Republic: Read It and Weep, but You Will Be Laughing Your Head off Too...

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California Central Valley Braces for Catastrophic Floods... We Should Be Bracing as Well

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Ducks and Rice; A Beautiful Synergy

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The Cocklebur, a New Newsletter From Longtime Ag Reporter Bryce Oates

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Avian Flu, Zoonotic Disease, and How Close Are We to a New Pandemic?

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Farms Not Feed

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Cage Free Eggs Should Be the Norm. How Is That Working Out?

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Alt Meat! Is It the Answer? Maybe Not?

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Injured and Invisible: Civil Eats Exposes Safety Failures in Animal Agriculture

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Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat

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BlueTriton, One of the Largest Water Companies in the World, Comes to Talk Sustainability and Addressing Infrastructure

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The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

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Proposition 12 out of California is having its day in Supreme Court

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Pulitzer prize winning author and publisher Art Cullen from the Storm Lake Times weighs in on Iowa politics and why Biden gets no love.

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Food Safety Inspection Services, a branch of USDA, offers up recent reports on poultry processing. Its not pretty.

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Money for Agriculture in the Inflation Recovery Act and More

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'Slow Cooked' With Marion Nestle

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What if You Could Measure Your Water Use and Your Food Print? Would You Change the Way You Shop, Eat, Consume?

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Is Kelp Production the Next Big Thing?

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Meatpacking Gets Hauled up on the Carpet in Congressional Hearings. Hear What They Had to Say for Themselves, and How Ranchers and Producers Responded.

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Raised Without Antibiotics Doesn’t Always Mean Raised Without Antibiotics!

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Explosive Report on How the FDA Is Failing Our Food System

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Why the War in Ukraine Will Affect Food Supplies Globally

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Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador Gives Tom Vilsack a Report Card on His First Year.

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Mega Ag is sucking Africa Dry

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Iowa State Representative Pushes Back on the Hog Industry

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Right to Repair, a Critical Element of Industry Consolidation

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Understanding What Went Wrong With the Cattle Markets

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Urban Agriculture; Exponential Growth Over a Decade

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Son of Vilsack Helps Perpetuate the Ethanol Industry

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Antibiotics in the Food Chain

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How Can Policy Affect Food Waste?

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Humanewashing: Think Those Labels Mean Something?

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Organizing Poultry Workers in Arkansas

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Economic Study Shows the Value of Regional Agriculture on State Finances

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Scare Tactics by Factory Farms in Minnesota

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Farmer Focus, a New Kind of Poultry Company

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Lab Grown Meat: A Deep Dive Into Viability

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Poultry Farmer Blows the Whistle on Perdue

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The Attack of the Superweeds

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Defending Beef 2.0

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Air from there pollutes right here!

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Biden takes aim at Consolidation and Monopolies

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JBS Pays 11Million in ransom to cybercriminals

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The Climate Bill even Big Ag Loves

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Water, the Commodity Trade?

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Eating with the Ecosystem

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The State of American Drinking Water

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Iowa has had enough of CAFOs

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More scandals in meatpacking

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Just Eat! with Barry Estabrook

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Draining the "Big Food" Swamp

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Migrant workers and the H2A visa Program

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The Poultry Industy Pays fines, Pleads guilty to price fixing

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New Dietary Guidelines; what didn't but should have changed!

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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal.

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Rebuilding dairy in Pennsylvania

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The latest on COVID-19 in food processing with Leah Douglas

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USDA nominations; new legislation to support Black farmers

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Meat Industry gets its way on line speeds

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How Biden is likely to react to Trump administration roll backs on protections for food and farming

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Monthly recap on the Covid Map with Leah Douglas

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Climate change and resiliency in agriculture

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Trump Administration Cancels USDA Wage Survey; Tens of Thousands of Farmworkers Will Suffer Massive Wage Cuts

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How one dairy farm beat the Covid business blues

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Weather and agriculture

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OSHA fines big meatpackers. Are they kidding?

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Perious Bounty, a new book by Mother Jones reporter Tom Philpott

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Monthly Roundup with Leah Douglas

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Where is OSHA in meatpacking?

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Propagate Ventures, a new modeling tool to foster agroecology