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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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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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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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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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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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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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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