How clean is the upper Mississippi River? New report finds signs of ...
WEBJan 9, 2024 · A new report released Tuesday from the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association found that although water quality has generally improved in the upper river in past decades, new threats, such as road salt and lead, are emerging.. The report tracked 19 indicators of water quality — including phosphorus, nitrogen, chloride, heavy metals and total suspended solids — over 30 years across the ...
Breaking down the use of glyphosate in the U.S.
WEBMay 26, 2019 · Glyphosate is the most used pesticide on U.S. agricultural crops, with the nation using an estimated 287 million pounds in 2016, according to an analysis by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. And sales continue to grow, with market researchers predicting the glyphosate market to grow to …
‘Is this legal?’: Why an obscure data service has been sued nearly …
WEBJul 29, 2021 · The question remains unanswered, albeit not for lack of trying: Agri Stats — a widely utilized, privately-held data and analytics firm for the meat processing industry — has been named in more than 90 lawsuits since 2016, making it the second-most sued company in the industry over that time span (Tyson Foods is first). All the lawsuits accuse the company of facilitating anti-competitive ...
About Investigate Midwest
WEBInvestigate Midwest (previously The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting) is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public as a watchdog over influential corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism. Started in 2009 by journalist Mike Sherry, Investigate Midwest provides training and education for students, professional ...
More foreign ownership of U.S. beef processors raises food safety ...
WEBDec 18, 2019 · Brazilian-owned companies now control two of the four meatpacking companies that process around 74% of all beef in the United States, according to the North American Meat Institute, a trade association representing meat processors. While JBS S.A. is significantly larger than Marfrig’s National Beef, …
‘We’ve got it everywhere’: Dicamba damaging trees across …
WEBJun 16, 2020 · The 196-acre Sipple Slough Woods in Washington County is home to a locally rare population of a wildflower called Aureolaria grandiflora. But in 2019, biologists reported that it was “significantly depressed” and that more than 100 oak trees had herbicide damage. The site had been damaged the year before.
Tyson Foods is being investigated by the USDA
WEBAug 16, 2024 · A Tyson Plant on West Olrich Street in Rogers, Arkansas, on June 28, 2020. photo by Spencer Tirey, for Investigate Midwest. The Packers and Stockyard Division is actively investigating Tyson Foods, one of the largest meat companies in the nation, according to interviews with contract growers and a USDA employee.
Meatpacking plants have long relied on immigrant labor. Now, …
WEBAug 19, 2021 · Martin Rosas, the president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 2 that represents workers at Seaboard, said workers are conditioned not to complain because they have to go through the rehiring process each year. “The company gives them a different color of hat,” he said. “That alone makes them a target by the supervisor, by anyone who wants to mistreat workers.”
Among Big Ag facilities, ADM’s Decatur plant emits most carbon …
WEBJun 3, 2021 · Among agricultural facilities with emissions tracked by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, this ADM plant has emitted the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — by far — over the past decade, according to an Investigate Midwest analysis of agency data.
‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s moves to force …
WEBDec 4, 2020 · This story is supported with a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.. Get poisoned or get on board. That’s the choice soybean farmers such as Will Glazik face. The past few summers, farmers near Glazik’s central Illinois farm have sprayed so much of the weed killer dicamba at the same time that it has polluted the air for hours and sometimes days.