Illinois producers wanting to pursue conservation projects have fewer resources this year with almost half of Illinois ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. It ...

Data centers, which store and process the digital information needed for everyday online activities, often consume large amounts of water to keep servers cool — especially the new hyperscale ...

This year, a Pennsylvania dairy farm with roots reaching back to before the Civil War shut down. Its closure is part of a decades-long decline: the U.S. has been losing more than 2,100 dairy farms, on ...

Iowa’s Beginning Farmer Tax Credit was expected to expand farmland leasing, but a new study found little evidence it created more farms statewide. As a boy growing up in Spencer, Iowa, Trent Walker ...

Isaac Strubbe prepares to fly his DJI Agriculture T40 spray drone at a field near Jacksonville, Illinois on Aug. 15, 2024. photo by Darrell Hoemann, Investigate Midwest Dust swirled as the 83-pound ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule next month on whether lawsuits can be brought against pesticide and herbicide makers over claims their products have caused cancer. The court heard arguments ...

This article originally appeared in Sentient Media. When Iowa resident Chris Henning was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, her youngest sister and brother-in-law had already died of cancer 13 years ...

H-2A farmworkers often complain of housing and employment abuses, and the federal government can temporarily ban employers from the visa labor program. But the bans are easy to evade, according to ...

Eastern North Dakota is a top corn and soybean-growing region, with many of its counties among the nation’s largest users of pesticides and herbicides. It’s also home to higher-than-average cancer ...