Meat Workers Taking Leave, Quitting as Plants Reopen Amid Coronavirus Scare May 6, 2020 By Jen Skerritt and Lydia Mulvany America’s meat-processing plants are starting to reopen but not all workers are showing up. Some still fear they’ll get sick...
New Firm’s Services for Consolidated Dairy Industry Include Crop Insurance October 2, 2019 By Lydia Mulvany Two traditional U.S. Midwest brokerages serving the dairy market are combining their businesses as the industry consolidates. Chicago-based Rice Dairy...
Farmers Grow to Like Crop of Technologies Helping Them Manage Weather Risk April 16, 2019 By Lydia Mulvany and Brian K. Sullivan When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first...
Monsanto Has Another Legally Risky Chemical Product August 21, 2018 By Lydia Mulvany Some Bayer AG investors were surprised to learn about the thousands of farmers lining up before U.S. courts to argue...
California’s $58B Wine Industry Hit by Wildfires October 11, 2017 By Jennifer Kaplan, Lydia Mulvany and Jeffrey Taylor The fires ravaging Northern California stand to leave the area’s renowned wine industry with damage that will be felt long...
EPA Official Allegedly Aided Monsanto in Fight Against Roundup Cancer Study March 16, 2017 By Joel Rosenblatt, Lydia Mulvany and Peter Waldman The Environmental Protection Agency official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto Co.’s Roundup allegedly bragged...
Bird Flu Found in Indiana Turkey Flock January 19, 2016 By Jeff Wilson and Lydia Mulvany The U.S. government confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H7N8 avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Indiana, the...
Cargill to Sell Crop Insurance Business to Silveus December 30, 2015 By Lydia Mulvany Cargill Inc. agreed to sell its crop insurance unit, the latest move by the giant U.S. agricultural commodity trader and...
Bird Flu Has Midwest Farmers Building Fences, Hosing Down Visitors October 2, 2015 By Lydia Mulvany and Linly Lin In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere...