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April 1, 20210

Illinois billionaire Shahid Khan investing in thousands of acres of the state’s farmland

This story was co-published with The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. Illinois billionaire Shahid Khan is known for building the autom

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April 13, 20162

Blighted Housing: Inspections fail to stem poor conditions for migrant farmworkers

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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April 13, 20161

Blighted Housing: A look inside eight migrant farmworker ‘camps’

Click to explore: Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting migrant farmworker housing database Below are noteworthy problems inspectors observed

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April 13, 20161

Blighted Housing: Visa program requires housing inspections for non-U.S. farmworkers

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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April 13, 20161

Blighted Housing: Much of Missouri migrant farmworker housing left out of inspection program

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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February 10, 20162

A new coal mine in town: environmental, economic questions still linger

Keith Rohl remembers the day he was asked to lease the coal rights to his farmland in Homer, Ill. It was 2009, a wet year for the crops, when he was

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September 16, 20150

Ag Secretary Vilsack announces major USDA biofuel investment

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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May 28, 20150

Agriculture community raises concerns on proposed state budget

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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May 20, 20150

Champaign County Farm Bureau aims to educate, advocate

With less than 2 percent of Champaign’s population involved in production agriculture, the Champaign County Farm Bureau has made it part of its missio

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April 2, 20150

Federal money woes bring attention to crop insurance

The average yearly amount of taxpayer money funding the highly subsidized federal crop insurance program has more than doubled in just over a decade.

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