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Fed auditors doubt ag trade programs’ impact

Throughout the past decade, the United States government has given agriculture groups billions of dollars to pay for things like grocery-store displays for grapes in Mexico and tradeshows for hardwoods...

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Food safety officials tweak Salmonella testing process

The Food Safety and Inspection Service announced changes to the process it uses to detect Salmonella in ground beef.  The changes apply to the methods used to determine which facilities will be tested,...

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New report criticizes EPA pesticide registration process

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources / FlickrMachinery sprays pesticide on rows of Christmas trees at a tree farm near Wautoma, Wis. A new government report found that the Environmental Protection...

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Prevented planting programs overpay farmers half a billion dollars

Danielle Sheppard/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingPrevented planting compensates farmers when they're unable to plant an insured crop due to weather. The Risk Management Agency set prevented...

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Crop yields may curb insurance payments to Midwest farmers

Photo by Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingHarvest starts at the Anderson Farm near Mansfield, Ill., on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. This year, some analysts said, crop yields will...

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Farmers prefer ‘RP’ insurance

Revenue protection (RP) policies account for almost all of the crop insurance policies sold to Illinois corn farmers. In fact, nearly 6,000 of the 7,000 insurance policies Illinois corn farmers bought...

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Modern meth production means less worry for farmers

The number of methamphetamine labs in central Illinois is on the rise, according to Illinois State Police records. And in past years, that would mean farmers and agriculture producers would have to...

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A tale of one meth lab

Beginning in June 2012, drug task force agents tracked 78 occasions when people who had recently purchased pseudoephedrine arrived at Tena Logan's residence in Loxa, Ill., according to a written...

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Two decades of meth use

Michael Pasley first used meth in his early teens. Two decades later, his use came to a quick end when he was arrested April 5, 2010, in Mattoon, Ill. The arrest came after he spent 22 straight days...

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Meth use on the rise again in Illinois

Photo by Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingVermilion County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Alblinger and Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Mike Atkinson (right) talk about the area's...

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Settlement reached in California ‘downer cattle’ case

Former beef suppliers to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch Program agreed in late November to a $155 million dollar final judgment to settle allegations of mistreating cows...

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USDA seeks insight on irrigation practices

Agriculture producers have until Feb. 10 to respond to a mandatory U.S. Department of Agriculture survey focused on how farmers and ranchers throughout the country use their water. The survey –...

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Lack of review of the Beef Board management leads to complex relationships

Investigators looking into the practices of the Agricultural Marketing Service found a lack of management reviews of the "Beef Board" operations unless a complaint or issue "arose". The lack of a...

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Land Values report due to be released this week; trend shows continued...

The United States Department of Agriculture is set to release the 2013 report of agricultural land values on August 2. If trends continue as they have been for the past 10 years, then the value of...

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Farm land values continue to climb

The average value for farm real estate climbed 9.4 percent from 2012, according to the 2013 Land Value Summary released late last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At $6,400 per acre, the...

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GAO Report: changes needed if key EPA program is to help fulfill the nation’s...

In December of 2013, the Government Accountability Office released a report that highlighted a flawed Environmental Protection Agency water-conservation program. It also summarized the overall state of...

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OIG Report: USDA paid billions in improper payments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported an estimated $6.2 billion in improper payments in 2013, according to an Office of Inspector General’s April report. An OIG audit found $416 million in...

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National Climate Assessment: White House assessment warns that climate change...

Warmer temperatures and extreme weather will threaten U.S. food security, a 1,300-page executive-branch assessment on climate change released in May found. Accordingly, federal crop insurance programs...

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GAO report on freshwater: supply concerns continue and uncertainties...

In May, the Government Accountability Office released a report that looked at U.S. freshwater availability. The report found that, since an earlier investigation in 2003, the state of the water supply...

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Farm Bill lobbying interests

As part of a project with Harvest Public Media, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed electronic federal lobbying reports to get a closer look at which special interests lobbied on...

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