Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Financials
Overview
Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by serving as a watchdog over influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.
News
Did Iowa's largest beginning farmer tax credit create more farms?
Key takeaways Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit increased farmland leasing, but researchers found little evidence that it created more farms or lowered the average age of emerging farmers. Researchers found limits to what the tax credit has accomplished,
Read more
Report
Milk production is up despite decades-long decline in US dairy farms
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 average, every year since 2003. But the U.S. dairy ind
Read more
Report
USDA wants to revive the cotton industry. Experts aren't sure that's possible.
A denim-clad rancher poses on horseback, crimson-red shirt against a hazy blue sky. A farmer in a T-shirt stands surrounded by his crop, leaves bending toward weathered hands. "Real Americans wear cotton," reads bold text over a photo of a sprawling white
Read more
Report
Report: Big Food companies regularly sue to stop or slow down public health policies
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 Lighthouse Reports and a slew of media partners. Diets ful
Read more
Report
Illinois pesticide fees meant for oversight are funding broader state operations
Illinois collected $9.06 million from pesticide registration fees in fiscal year 2025 to support enforcement and education programs related to oversight of pesticide applicators. But state spending records indicate that much of that money, which is suppos
Read more
Report
Pro access
Upgrade to see all 16 mentions
Upgrade to a paid plan to read every media mention of this company - funding news, awards, product launches and press releases from all the outlets writing about it.
Every media mention and press release
Funding news, awards and product launches
Fresh coverage from every outlet writing about the company
Upgrade now
Cancel anytime. Secure checkout. Instant activation.