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Two Illinois farmers set out to improve soil health in the Midwest. The program they founded also has a myriad of climate benefits.

Sanoh America’s Findlay, Ohio, facility had one-third of its workforce contract the virus and two deaths. OSHA slapped it with a paltry fine of $26,527 as the price of doing business.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Isabel Djaroun stood with her mother in the living room in her home in Sioux City. Isabel’s one-month-old daughter Nadia sat in her purple and white baby swing nearby. The two older women leaned over a giant silver-plated pot that’s usually reserved for pozole, a kind of Mexican stew. Isabel and

Grocery workers at 87 stores in Boulder, Colorado Springs, and the Denver metro area could walk out as soon as January 9 when their current contract expires.

Agriculture industry leaders ended 2021 disappointed that a bill with bipartisan support could not get any traction in the Senate.

The BCTGM is copying the UAW’s method used to break the John Deere strike of dividing workers up by plant, seeking to isolate the more militant plants from the less militant.

Meatpacking families in the state were hit hard by the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean they were all torn apart.

Statewide legislation has led to a big rise in food donation and composting. But the trickiest part of the equation—separating food from its packaging—continues to cause headaches.

The numbers of meatpacking workers infected and killed by the coronavirus are much higher than previously known, a congressional review has found. More than 59,000 workers of the country's five...

The company is appealing citations from state regulators alleging it failed to communicate with workers about COVID-19 infections, outbreaks and deaths, among other violations, at a Foster Farms' plant in Fresno. A Cal/OSHA investigation found employees who died or were hospitalized likely were exposed to the coronavirus at work.