Despite the prominence and importance of agriculture to the Midwest, newspapers in the region do a poor job covering the industry. A recent study revealed dwindling staffs and the increasingly technical nature of agriculture are cited as reasons for the low level of rural coverage on farming.
Beef Products, Inc., a South Dakota producer of lean finely textured beef filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News in September seeking $1.2 billion in actual damages. The lawsuit is based on what BPI legal counsel called a “long-term, sustained, vicious attack” by ABC against BPI’s product.
The U.S. Supreme Court has set the stage for a David vs. Goliath confrontation pitting a 74-year-old Indiana farmer against Monsanto Co., the genetic engineering giant. The court agreed on the first day of this year’s term to hear Vernon Hugh Bowman’s challenge to the reach of Monsanto claims for it
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.
A couple years ago, Missouri's grain industry was rocked by two business insolvencies that saddled farmers with millions of dollars in losses. Regulators and the farmers themselves share blame for a system that had begun to operate loosely. Both sides say they have learned their lesson and have tigh
