Farmers have begun raising concerns about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations on their ...

President Donald Trump’s pledge to enact mass deportations has spread fear and panic across Iowa’s immigrant communities, ...

On a cold winter day in Illinois, three little pigs are resting in a three-sided shed. They have plenty of space to trot ...

Note: An earlier version of this story did not correctly combine county data, leading to an inflated number associated with ...

The new leader of the U.S. Senate’s agriculture committee, Arkansas’ John Boozman, has several ties to meatpacking behemoths, ...

This story was updated to add Deere & Company’s statement. Deere & Company, one of America’s largest farm equipment ...

In the run up to the November elections, then-Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance famously blamed Democrat ...

The Food and Drug Administration has not performed its legally required number of food safety inspections each year since ...

Nestled along the curves of the Illinois River just outside the town of Hennepin is the country’s largest dry-mill ethanol plant, where a network of pipes, grain elevators and exhaust towers rise like ...

Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, is poised to spearhead a sweeping rollback of regulations related to meatpacking plant pollution, fertilizer ...

Investigate Midwest is pleased to announce Juan Vassallo has joined its editorial staff as an Oklahoma-based reporter ...

Chicago Region Food System Fund, Data-Driven Reporting Project, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Fund for Investigative Journalism, Gary Marx Journalism Fund, Arnold Ventures, Kirkpatrick ...