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Schools across the U.S. served more than 5 billion meals in the national school lunch program to millions of students last year. Each one of the meals has…
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The middle of winter is when the stream of locally grown fruits and vegetables in the Midwest begins to freeze up.Nicole Saville knows first-hand. Saville…
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There are mounting concerns about the direction of the farm economy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects farm income to fall for the third year in…
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Earlier this year, Des Moines, Iowa, made news when the city announced it would sue farmers in a legal battle over fertilizer. The city’s water supply…
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Farmers in the Midwest are facing a situation they haven’t seen in years. Grain prices are down. After some of the most lucrative growing seasons they’ve…
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California grows almost half the fruits and vegetables in the U.S. It’s also deep in drought and some farms are short on water. That may sound like a…
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Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they’re…