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Recent flooding costs grain trader Archer Daniels Midland millions in losses

By Claire Hettinger / Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | April 3, 2019

Severe weather and flooding that impacted much of the Midwest are expected to cause multinational agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland to lose millions of dollars.

Environment
Cow's head, head of Iris of Brooklyn. Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Critics doubt the benefit of new pill that reduces gas emissions in cows

By Kaolin Sewell/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 14, 2018

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a first-of-its kind pill that reduces the amount of ammonia gas emissions in beef cattle and their manure. However, some critics are doubting its overall effectiveness.

Government

EPA extends registration for continued use of pesticide dicamba into 2020

By Kaolin Sewell/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 8, 2018

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended use of pest control substance, dicamba, until December 20, 2020. What are the new regulations for extended use of the herbicide?

Monsanto

Activists’ tribunal threatens ‘real dialogue’ on food and agriculture, Monsanto says

By Robert Holly | April 19, 2017

A mock international tribunal held in the Netherlands and put together by activist groups has concluded that the St. Louis-based seed company Monsanto has “engaged in practices that have impinged on the basic human right to a healthy environment.”

Archer Daniels Midland

ADM begins operations at second carbon capture and storage project

By Robert Holly | April 14, 2017

Commodities trader Archer Daniels Midland recently announced it has begun operations at a carbon capture and storage project in central Illinois capable of storing more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

Monsanto

Unsealed court documents detail ‘outrageous’ relationship between Monsanto and pesticide regulators

By Robert Holly | March 20, 2017

Newly unsealed court documents detail “outrageous” communications between Monsanto employees and an EPA regulator over the safety of a controversial chemical found in the seed company’s top weed killer, advocates say.

Bunge

Investigation claims Cargill isn’t following through on pledge to stop deforestation

By Robert Holly | March 2, 2017

After years of progress to slow deforestation, farmers and advocates say the Amazon rainforest is once again being threatened — and two Big Ag companies may be responsible.

climate change

Climate change: Trump says no, Big Ag says yes

By Johnathan Hettinger & Robert Holly/Big-AgWatch.org | February 6, 2017

While new administration officials have cast doubts about climate change, the world’s largest agribusiness companies — which have billions of dollars invested in the health of the planet — have not. Here is a comprehensive guide to what some of the world’s biggest agricultural companies are doing related to climate change based on a review of news reports, SEC documents, their own websites and reports, and publicly available data.

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