Critics say the structure of the deal provides a rich payout of $675 million in fees to the lawyers helping promote the deal, but paltry payments for the cancer sufferers who make up the class.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling a survey that hunger groups use to understand — and respond to — food insecurity across the country.
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The counties with the highest use of pesticides per square mile are all located in Missouri's Bootheel. Many of these counties have some of the state's highest cancer rates and their health care options are dwindling.
Precision agriculture has long promised to provide more granular data — and new technology to use it — for farmers facing pressure to increase yields while being more environmentally friendly. It's had some successes, but some of the loftiest promises of precision ag are still out of reach.
