Higher tariffs on nearly all major U.S. trading partners are piling pressure on farmers already struggling with soaring agricultural supply costs and elevated rates.
In this third chapter of a four-day documentary, freelance writer Donna Schill investigates an annual farm inspection that brings light to flaws in organic enforcement.
The beyond organic farming movement emerges in Iowa. In 2010, Donna Schill, then a journalism graduate student, spent part of her summer working on an organic farm in Iowa and discovered a movement and a story that became her preoccupation for the next 12 months.