We tracked how the collapse of federal rural energy support is ending solar projects across farm country — and costing some developers millions they'll never get back.
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Early on a cool September morning, farmer Josh Payne tends to his flock in Concordia, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. As Payne opens the gate,
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.
Alternating extremes of heavy rainfall and drought are making it harder for the Army Corps of Engineers — which must by law maintain the Mississippi River for commerce, including the transportation of grain — to predict and plan a multi-million-dollar practice of constant dredging. In the upper reac
