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Iowa – the nation’s top hog producer – had more than 15,000 factory farms in 2025 producing over 107 million tons of manure, a first-of-its-kind EWG analysis finds.

The U.S. gets nearly a third of its pork from Iowa. One family is making the switch from pigs to more sustainable specialty mushrooms and trying to show other pig farmers how they did it.

Leaders in the Make America Healthy Again movement like to tout their support for regenerative agriculture as a way to cut farm pollution and pesticide use, among other benefits.&nb

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Some Iowa producers argue the Save Our Bacon Act will harm farmers by taking away diversified markets and by sending a message to consumers.

The White House’s latest plans are designed to boost U.S. ranchers who were largely worried about the administration’s moves to lower beef prices.

Many ranchers and Republicans argue that boosting imports won’t tangibly lower beef prices in the short term — in a rare break with the president’s policies.

Agriculture could become the nation’s leading producer of greenhouse gases by 2050.

In far southwest Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete.

One way or another, Iowa is about to elect a governor who faults industrial agriculture for the state’s high cancer rates.

Carl Zulauf, Henrique Monaco, Jonathan Coppess, and Gary Schnitkey - Over the last two years, administrative actions and the 2025 Farm Bill have raised to 80% the federal premium subsidy rate for area...

The heartland Democrat is making a comeback.

North Carolina’s poultry industry – and the pollution and health problems tied to it – reached a staggering scale in 2024: almost 422 million chicken and turkeys, equivalent to more

With statewide monitoring limited, Prairie Rivers Network researchers tested 10 locations in 2025, finding pesticides over 200 times and identifying 18 different kinds of pesticides at the sites.

SACRAMENTO – The Environmental Working Group today applauded the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s

Although lawmakers agreed on several farm policy priorities, the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to advance the farm bill, 10-11, sending the fight over a two-year SNAP cost-share delay into Septe...

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought ...

A report from the Environmental Working Group claims thousands of feeding operations are off the DNR's radar. A representative with the Iowa Pork Producers Association says the DNR is following state ...

EWG's Ann Schechinger on the buzzword taking over food and farming

River to River is a conversation about the news — from an Iowa perspective. Together, we dig into the story behind the headlines, talking with newsmakers and experts to find out how the news affects y...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration report that onions are the likely source of the McDonald’s E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened doze...

The Salinas, Calif., company grows produce in more than 12 states, and in Mexico and Canada. Some Taylor Farms lettuce suspected of causing sickness ended up at Taco Bell.

The Trump administration is asking Congre

An analysis by advocacy nonprofit the Environmental Working Group found a discrepancy in the number of animal feeding operations in Department of Natural Resource data and USDA imagery.

The number of large CAFOs has grown 13% over six years, contributing to Iowa's nitrate pollution, the Environmental Working Group says in new report.

Iowa – the nation’s top hog producer – had more than 15,000 factory farms in 2025 producing over 107 million tons of manure, a first-of-its-kind EWG analysis finds.

Iowa – the nation’s top hog producer – had more than 15,000 factory farms in 2025 producing over 107 million tons of manure, a first-of-its-kind EWG analysis finds.

A group of Trump advisers, Cabinet secretaries and MAHA farmers came to the Oval Office for a signing ceremony on an executive order they championed. A deep-pocketed opponent was waiting to argue them...

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