The impact of climate change and drought on the Panama Canal have led to increases in freight rates, longer transit times and ballooning carbon emissions in agricultural trade.
Imagery collected by inexpensive satellites is ushering in an era of real-time monitoring of manure-spreading practices at big farms -- including illegal winter applications that can cause harmful runoff. Some advocates want Wisconsin regulators to utilize the technology.
Out-of-state investors are buying up Nebraska land in part because of the groundwater that can be placed on crops. But there are restrictions on what they can do with that water.
Last year, the EPA called out nitrate pollution, largely from agriculture, in southeastern Minnesota. Now a bill to raise taxes on fertilizer is moving through the Minnesota Legislature.
The Environmental Protection Agency has run off the rails, columnist Dave Dickey writes, in how it considers pesticides. The agency puts Big Ag and political interests ahead of data.
