Harvest Public Media

More herbicides could face legal challenges in the coming years, but they were once a key player in the rise of modern industrialized growing systems.

Climate change and the environmental damage caused by large-scale agriculture have researchers across the country searching for ways to increase productivity without causing more damage. 

Missouri saw a huge increase in hunting activity this turkey season. Almost 20,000 new hunters tried out the sport.

Even as more people use flour baking during the pandemic, some wheat farmers may need help to break even this year.

Consider humble ground beef, the stuff of hamburgers, meatballs, chili and pasta sauce. The fattier meat usually costs less, but the global pandemic has made ground beef prices anything but usual.

Many workers at meatpacking plants feel they can’t speak out about working conditions. Instead, the families of workers have been the ones organizing.

The COVID-19 pandemic has farmers facing unprecedented challenges, and this has some worried about a mental health crisis in this community.

Many rural residents are avoiding crowds by shopping closer to home during the pandemic.

Rural hospitals have been planning for the arrival of the coronavirus, but the preparations are putting some of these hospitals in financial danger.

Some experts worried millions of hogs would never make it into the food supply, but so far, farmers have largely avoided having to take extreme measures.

One Kansas City, Kansas, restaurant stopped receiving shipments of fresh meat, but some food distributors are seeing demand surge as major meatpackers have been forced to cut production.

Thousands of meat processing workers have tested positive for COVID-19, meatpacking plants that closed now must reopen, and hog producers are faced with no market — and no room — for their animals.