It’s called the “California Effect.” When it comes to agricultural law, regulation and policy the state has often set trends ...

This month, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the nation’s largest meatpacking companies ...

More than a third of the world’s corn supply comes from America’s Corn Belt, a region of sprawling grain fields stretching from Nebraska to Ohio. But most of the seed varieties planted in those ...

More than a third of the world’s corn supply comes from America’s Corn Belt, a region of sprawling grain fields stretching from Nebraska to Ohio. But most of the seed varieties planted in those ...

People have been naturally coloring their food for a long, long, LONG time — as far back as 1500 B.C. Centuries later in 1856 ...

Farmers in a newly published Europe-wide study were exposed to about twice as many pesticides as the general population — but ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is seeking more than $100 million from poultry companies over water pollution from chicken ...

When Monsanto (now Bayer) launched its dicamba-resistant soybeans in 2017, the move allowed farmers to spray dicamba directly ...

This story is is supported by funding from the Chicago Region Food Systems Fund. President Trump’s deportation of more than half a million people, along with his ending of several programs that ...

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 ...