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State records list roughly 11,000 regulated animal feeding operations. A yearlong effort using federal aerial imagery, satellite analysis and state records found more than 15,000 livestock facilities, ...

State and local governments have paid more than half a billion dollars in tax breaks to meat processing companies over nearly 20 years to attract new processing plants, as industry-wide transformation ...

The hunt was on. Having just returned to power in early 2025, President Trump had ordered agencies to root out government spending that promoted, in his view, “gender ideology extremism.” The problem ...

North Dakota farmer Tyler Stafslien stands in front of storage silos holding grain and soybeans. The tariff war with China forced Stafslien to store more of his soybeans in the 2025 harvest season, ...

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Some U.S. lawmakers are rushing to introduce legislation to reverse the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling handed down last week that overturned years of precedent by limiting consumer lawsuits ...

Food price inflation has been significant in the U.S. in recent years, beginning with supply chain disruptions that saw prices increase by nearly 10% several years ago and by 3.1% over the past year, ...