Beef Products, Inc. gained national media attention last fall when it filed the lawsuit against ABC News. BPI claims that ABC’s coverage of lean finely textured beef was unfair and led to the closure of three plants and loss of work for more than 700 BPI employees. Now the case is back in a South Da
Last year, Monsanto quietly halted production on genetically modified corn in most of Europe. The decision followed a move by Monsanto to withdraw testing of five new varieties of genetically modified corn that was resistant to the herbicide Round-Up by 2012. The company asked to keep trial results
A major environmental threat has emerged as factory farms take over more and more of the nation’s livestock production: Pollution from the waste produced by the immense crush of animals. Iowa has more of the massive livestock feeding lots, known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, t
Livestock industry groups applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s retreat last year from establishing an information-gathering rule.
Michael Formica, of the National Pork Producers’ Council, said the rule simply
Ten agribusiness companies that support genetically modified crops have donated more than $1.2 million in political campaign contributions to members of the U.S. Senate for the 2010, 2012 and 2014 election cycles, according to an analysis by Maplight.org
Vernon Bowman's challenge to Monsanto Co.'s patent on its Roundup Ready soybean seeds was billed as a David v. Goliath contest. Goliath won and won big.
Critics of Monsanto – and they are legion – demonize the company for seizing control of food production technology and undermining the tradition of seed-saving in agriculture.
Monsanto’s agents – called
On Tuesday, Vernon Hugh Bowman will be a long way from the small Indiana farm where he was born 75 years ago and still farms 300 acres. He will be in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the reach of Monsanto Co.'s patent to protect its Roundup Ready seeds.
Beef Products, Inc. the South Dakota based company suing ABC News for defamation, has asked that the case is returned to South Dakota state court and out of federal jurisdiction.
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.
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.
Farmland in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska are among the nine states in the country that sell 50 percent of the U.S. agriculture products while netting nearly $100 billion in total produce sales, according to U.S. Census data.
