President Donald Trump’s order to freeze most federal grants and loans has created panic and uncertainty within the agriculture sector, which relies on billions of dollars in direct government ...

Note: An earlier version of this story did not correctly combine county data, leading to an inflated number associated with ...

On Aug. 24, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the ...

Farmers have begun raising concerns about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations on their ...

One of President Donald Trump’s first-term achievements was a major tax cut, which he signed into law in 2017. The Tax Cuts ...

The new leader of the U.S. Senate’s agriculture committee, Arkansas’ John Boozman, has several ties to meatpacking behemoths, ...

On a cold winter day in Illinois, three little pigs are resting in a three-sided shed. They have plenty of space to trot ...

In the run up to the November elections, then-Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance famously blamed Democrat ...

President Donald Trump’s pledge to enact mass deportations has spread fear and panic across Iowa’s immigrant communities, ...

Note: This story was updated 10:23 a.m. Jan. 27, 2025. Nestled along the curves of the Illinois River just outside the town of Hennepin is the country’s largest dry-mill ethanol plant, where a network ...

Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, is poised to spearhead a sweeping rollback of regulations related to meatpacking plant pollution, fertilizer ...