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Anne Schechinger: Breaking with past practice, the USDA is obscuring who received almost $3.1 billion in farm subsidies from 2019 to 2021.
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Anne Schechinger: Breaking with past practice, the USDA is obscuring who received almost $3.1 billion in farm subsidies from 2019 to 2021.
U.S. House and Senate Republicans are sending strong signals they want to strip climate funding from the 2023 Farm bill if they take control
Farmers are dealing with more and heavier rainfall events throughout the Upper Midwest. Some farmers install drainage tiles and trenches to handle the water, but that can lead to soil erosion and flooding downstream.
A changing climate is causing rain to fall in harder bursts that push back planting seasons and drown crops in the Mississippi River farm country.
A changing climate is causing rain to fall in harder bursts that push back planting seasons and drown crops in Mississippi River farm country.