The way farmers use crop insurance has fundamentally changed — and that’s been costly for taxpayers. Instead of buying insurance policies that exclus
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Thanks to a drop in market volatility and grain prices, farmers may pay up to 10 percent less this year for crop insurance. The fed
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Ricardo Arismendez left his home in Temple, Texas, in the autumn of 2014 to work 12-hour days for $9.50 an hour at a corn processing facility in centr
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Click to explore: Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting migrant farmworker housing database Below are noteworthy problems inspectors observed
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Hundreds of migrant workers come to the United States from Mexico and other countries with special H-2A farm visas, but they make up only a fraction o
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In Missouri, inspections for migrant worker housing are required only for employers that own housing units that will be occupied by temporary foreign
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A new trade deal aimed at cutting thousands of taxes and opening markets with 11 Pacific Rim nations has drawn heavy lobbying from some of America’s l
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced on Thursday that his department will award nearly two dozen states with millions of dollars to bui
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Nearly a year after China re-opened its doors to imported U.S. corn, one former U.S. representative is recruiting Illinois farmers into a mass-action
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The state budget for agricultural education is once again coming under the scythe. In June 2010, the Illinois State Board of Education adopted a budg
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