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Opening This Spring in Kansas: A High-Tech Lab Researching Livestock Diseases

At the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, researchers will try to find cures for and ways to prevent highly contagious diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease, affecting livestock and humans.

by Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest

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Fertilizer Washes off Midwest Farm Fields and Taints Communities’ Drinking Water, Poisons Gulf of Mexico

As Rainfall Events Become More Intense and Frequent, Fertilizers Applied to Midwestern Farmland Wash Away, Contaminating Waterways Near and Far

by Ignacio Calderon

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‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers

Internal company records show the companies knew crop damage from their weed killer would be extensive. They sold it anyway.

by Johnathan Hettinger

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