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Trump’s funding freeze chills agriculture industry
President Donald Trump’s order to freeze most federal grants and loans has created panic and uncertainty within the agriculture sector, which relies on billions of dollars in direct government ...
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Millions of livestock die each year while being transported. Those cases are rarely investigated by the USDA.
On Aug. 24, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the ...
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Farm households will see more tax liability when Trump tax cuts expire
One of President Donald Trump’s first-term achievements was a major tax cut, which he signed into law in 2017. The Tax Cuts ...
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134M poultry and counting: Interactive charts show hardest-hit counties in bird flu crisis
Note: An earlier version of this story did not correctly combine county data, leading to an inflated number associated with ...
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Iowa immigrants fear the Trump administration’s move toward mass deportation
President Donald Trump’s pledge to enact mass deportations has spread fear and panic across Iowa’s immigrant communities, ...
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Trump ag secretary nominee says food issues from mass deportations are ‘hypothetical’
Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture nominee, testifies during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing in Washington DC on Jan. 23, 2025. photo by ...