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Jan 16, 2025 | 
kjan.com | Jennifer Bamberg |Investigate Midwest
Ag/Outdoor, News
DES MOINES, Iowa (— For nearly 200 John Deere workers in Iowa, the first few days of 2025 marked the end of their employment. On Jan. 3, 112 employees were laid off at the Waterloo facility and 80 were laid off at John Deere Davenport Works. Next month, 75 additional employees will be laid off at a plant in Ottumwa, Iowa, according to a review of WARN layoff data.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
kcci.com | Jennifer Bamberg |Investigate Midwest
For nearly 200 John Deere workers in Iowa, the first few days of 2025 marked the end of their employment. On Jan. 3, 112 employees were laid off at the Waterloo facility and 80 were laid off at John Deere Davenport Works. Next month, 75 additional employees will be laid off at a plant in Ottumwa, Iowa, according to a review of WARN layoff data.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
investigatemidwest.org | Jennifer Bamberg |Investigate Midwest
For nearly 200 John Deere workers in Iowa, the first few days of 2025 marked the end of their employment. On Jan. 3, 112 employees were laid off at the Waterloo facility and 80 were laid off at John Deere Davenport Works. Next month, 75 additional employees will be laid off at a plant in Ottumwa, Iowa, according to a review of WARN layoff data.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
investigatemidwest.org | Jennifer Bamberg |Investigate Midwest
Trump’s proposed 60% tariff on goods imported from China would have a “damaging effect with permanent consequences” on U.S. soybean growers and lead to increased deforestation in South America, according to an October 2024 study commissioned by the American Soybean Association and the National Corn Growers Association.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
minnesotareformer.com | Jennifer Bamberg |Investigate Midwest |Minnesota Reformer
by Jennifer Bamberg, Investigate Midwest, Minnesota Reformer November 25, 2024 !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r<e.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}(); President-elect Donald Trump has promised to begin his second term with the largest...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
investigatemidwest.org | Jennifer Bamberg |Investigate Midwest
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to begin his second term with the largest mass deportation in history, making the jobs held by undocumented workers available to U.S. citizens. Undocumented immigrants make up only 5% of the total labor force, according to the most recent federal data from the U.S. Census Bureau and from the Pew Research Center. However, the share of undocumented workers across the nation’s food supply chain is at least 16%.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
wisconsinwatch.org | John McCracken |Sky Chadde |Jennifer Bamberg
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn May, a CBS News reporter asked the Illinois Department of Agriculture if there were bird-flu-positive dairy herds in Kane County, only to be told the department “doesn’t have any role in this testing” and was directed to the state’s health department. But an internal email from Connie Austin, the public health department’s veterinarian and deputy state epidemiologist, revealed disagreement.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
wisfarmer.com | John McCracken |Sky Chadde |Jennifer Bamberg
In May, a CBS News reporter asked the Illinois Department of Agriculture if there were bird flu-positive dairy herds in Kane County, only to be told the department “doesn’t have any role in this testing” and was directed to the state’s health department. But an internal email from Connie Austin, the public health department’s veterinarian and deputy state epidemiologist, revealed disagreement.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
missouriindependent.com | John McCracken |Sky Chadde |Jennifer Bamberg
In May, a CBS News reporter asked the Illinois Department of Agriculture if there were bird flu-positive dairy herds in Kane County, only to be told the department “doesn’t have any role in this testing” and was directed to the state’s health department. But an internal email from Connie Austin, the public health department’s veterinarian and deputy state epidemiologist, revealed disagreement.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
investigatemidwest.org | John McCracken |Investigate Midwest |Sky Chadde |Jennifer Bamberg
In May, a CBS News reporter asked the Illinois Department of Agriculture if there were bird flu-positive dairy herds in Kane County, only to be told the department “doesn’t have any role in this testing” and was directed to the state’s health department. But an internal email from Connie Austin, the public health department’s veterinarian and deputy state epidemiologist, revealed disagreement.
