Environment Factory farms in Iowa generate 110 billion pounds of manure per year. No one tracks where it's going. Manure management planning could prevent fertilizer pollution. But an antiquated system isn’t doing enough to track manure, a former state employee says. By Anika Jane Beamer, Inside Climate News and Nina Elkadi, Sentient Media / 4 Dec 2025
Data Harvest US farmland continues folding to foreign-owned interests States with major crop, solar, wind and livestock industries have seen dramatic increases in the past decade. By John McCracken, Investigate Midwest / 13 May 2025