Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies rose 46% in 2025 — to 315 filings compared to 216 in 2024, marking the third year in a row that filings increased, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The ...

NextEra Energy’s 2,000-acre solar farm under construction in northwest Oklahoma is set to become one of the state’s largest ...

Increasingly, pesticides are being blamed for rising cancer rates across America’s agricultural communities. Hardin County, home to around 800 farms, has a pesticide use rate more than four times the ...

April Hemmes began farming soybeans in Iowa in the mid-1980s, just as the agricultural economy was in crisis and many farms ...

This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. A majority of the top pesticide-using counties in the U.S. have cancer rates above the national average. For years, ...

Investigate Midwest’s editor-in-chief Ben Felder appeared Feb. 19 on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River with the launch of his latest investigation into pesticide use and cancer rates in the ...

Workers at Triumph Foods pork processing facility are pictured on April 28, 2017. The facility houses 2,800 employees in St. Joseph, Missouri. photo by Preston Keres, USDA via Flickr A pig’s head ...

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 ...

This illustration highlights the impact of waste runoff, as seen in Postville, Iowa, where untreated waste from a local plant threatened the water supply of residents, many of whom work in the same ...

Brooke Rollins believes she is waging a new American Revolution, leading a crusade against Biblical darkness and guiding U.S. agriculture into a “golden age.” In her first six months as the nation’s ...