Investigate Midwest staff

USDA releases 10-year agriculture forecast

Expect crude oil prices to jump at least 28 percent over the next decade and raise agriculture production costs, according to new estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 16 Feb 2013

USDA releases 10-year agriculture forecast

New journalism fellowships focus on food, agriculture

Applications are due April 1 for the first round of five $10,000 postgraduate fellowships from University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 16 Feb 2013

New journalism fellowships focus on food, agriculture

Latitude News explores the "shady trade of American horsemeat"

Over 100,000 American horses – race horses, ranch horses, teaching stable horses - are eaten abroad every year. And there’s evidence that some of those horses are slipping through inspection cracks in Canada and making their way, along with their toxic drug residue, into the European market.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 17 Dec 2012

Latitude News explores the "shady trade of American horsemeat"

Harvest Public Media tackles Big Beef with Kansas City Star

This week, the Kansas Cit Star released a three-part series on the beef industry after a year-long investigation. Harvest Public Media contributed to the project and produced several radio stories on the topic, including an interview with project reporter Mike McGraw.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 13 Dec 2012

Harvest Public Media tackles Big Beef with Kansas City Star

Newspaper takes a close-up look at Big Beef

In a year-long investigation, The Kansas City Star found a beef industry with hidden health hazards. The resulting project is a three-part series published this week.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 10 Dec 2012

Newspaper takes a close-up look at Big Beef

Feeding the World: Can Global Crop Production Meet Future Demands?

Crop production will have to double by 2050 to fulfill the needs of a growing and increasingly affluent population. Meeting this challenge will be difficult but not impossible, according to the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 25 Jul 2012

Feeding the World: Can Global Crop Production Meet Future Demands?

Panic State: Mental Health Funding Dropping

Scrutiny of the nation's mental health system has followed the January shooting rampage that seriously injured U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and killed six others. Click on the logos to the left to read stories published Wednesday that feature contributions from the Midwest Center for Invest

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 9 Mar 2011

USDA releases 10-year agriculture forecast

New journalism fellowships focus on food, agriculture

Latitude News explores the "shady trade of American horsemeat"

Harvest Public Media tackles Big Beef with Kansas City Star

Newspaper takes a close-up look at Big Beef

Feeding the World: Can Global Crop Production Meet Future Demands?

Panic State: Mental Health Funding Dropping

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