Jan 24, 2025 · Farmers have begun raising concerns about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations on their operations, but the president’s nominee for agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, said any issues stemming from a lost labor force are “hypothetical.”. If farms are affected by mass deportations, she and other administration officials would “hopefully solve some of ...

Jun 15, 2018 · The increasing use in the health care arena of trauma-informed care in treating victims of child abuse and other trauma is rooted in the war experiences of battled-scared veterans of the Vietnam War.

Nov 6, 2024 · Trump’s push for ‘mass deportation’ could harm farm labor. During his campaign, Trump promised to deport upwards of 20 million undocumented people, many of them agricultural workers who perform the dangerous jobs most Americans don’t want.

4 days ago · Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.

Oct 23, 2024 · Facebook; LinkedIn; X; Mail; Share Copied to clipboard; In 2004, John Platt and his wife purchased 26 acres of untouched woodlands in Florida’s panhandle. As they transformed it into a horse ranch, they toppled trees and stripped the undergrowth with the herbicide paraquat.

Nov 11, 2024 · This story was originally published by Barn Raiser. In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to incentivize farmers to cease farming on environmentally sensitive land. His grandfather signed up for the program to help restore […]

Nov 13, 2024 · America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%. Trump has appeared on three presidential ballots, beginning in 2016. In 2020 and 2024, he increased his support nationwide, topping 50% in this year’s popular vote. However, Trump also increased his support this year among farming-dependent counties

Over the past 30 years, ethanol spills have increased tenfold as production and transportation of the biofuel has spiked. Between 2011 and 2015, ethanol spills occurred between 607 and 741 times each year nationwide, about two a day on average.

Jan 7, 2025 · Corn, the nation’s largest crop, is produced for a variety of uses, including food for humans and animals, alcohol for fuel and exports to foreign countries. Almost all of those uses have increased over the last several years. However, corn produced for high-fructose corn syrup has decreased by 21% over the past decade, dropping from […]

Nov 18, 2024 · Permit plans for large-scale farming ignite tensions. The civic confrontation between the Amish and the neighboring communities started in December 2023 when Noah Schmucker and Wagler and Associates sought a permit to build a $10 million feeding facility for 8,000 calves and cattle in Steuben County.