Farmer John Boyer stands on his East Jordan property. Boyer entered 131 acres of farmland into a conservation easement this year, restricting future development. photo by Vivian La, IPR News This ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Mars have regularly sued governments around the world in an effort to prevent public health proposals from being implemented, according to new reporting by ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. It was originally published by Grist. John Boyer grew up on his family’s 131 ...

Farmers nationwide paid nearly two-thirds more for diesel during the 2026 planting season than in 2025, adding roughly $1.4 billion in fuel costs, according to a congressional analysis. American ...

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 ...