Deere Retreats From Diversity Measures After Online Attacks July 17, 2024 By Simone Foxman and Michael Hirtzer Deere & Co., the world’s top farm machinery maker, is pulling back from diversity measures in the face of conservative...
Robots, Drones and Driverless Tractors Usher In New Age of Farming July 2, 2024 By Michael Hirtzer Tractors plow the farm fields without drivers, guided by satellites and iPhones. Solar-powered robots tend to plants on the ground...
Bird Flu Hits Texas, Kansas Milk in First Sign of Impact June 21, 2024 By Michael Hirtzer US milk production is starting to get hit by the bird flu virus, which first made the jump to cows...
Top US Egg Maker Idles Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak April 3, 2024 By Gerson Freitas Jr. and Michael Hirtzer Cal-Maine Foods Inc., the biggest egg producer in the US, has culled roughly 3.6% of its flock after birds at...
US Corn Harvest Is in Trouble August 25, 2023 By Tarso Veloso, Millie Munshi and Michael Hirtzer Sagging ears just short of maturity, cobs half bare of kernels as if nibbled, earth so dry that deep cracks...
Farmers Set to Abandon Wheat Crops at Highest Rate Since 1917 May 15, 2023 By Michael Hirtzer and Tarso Veloso America’s wheat fields have become so plagued by drought that farmers are now poised to abandon crops at the highest...
U.S. Sues Chicken Producers, Alleging They Conspired to Keep Wages Down July 26, 2022 By Michael Hirtzer and Leah Nylen US poultry producers Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Wayne Farms LLC agreed to pay $84.8 million restitution for conspiring...
Bird Flu Outbreak Nears Worst Ever in U.S. With 37 Million Dead Chickens May 6, 2022 By Zijia Song, Elizabeth Elkin and Michael Hirtzer A bird flu virus that’s sweeping across the U.S. is rapidly becoming the country’s worst outbreak, having already killed over...
Biden Withdraws Trump Chicken Slaughter Rule Industry Says Is Safe January 26, 2021 By Michael Hirtzer A major food workers’ union praised President Joe Biden for withdrawing a rule that would have permanently allowed U.S. poultry...
Meat Packing Plant Owners Defend Operations During Pandemic July 27, 2020 By Michael Hirtzer and Isis Almeida As part of an investigation into the spread of coronavirus at U.S. meat plants, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory...