5,000 Meat, Food Plant Workers Exposed to Coronavirus, Union Says April 24, 2020 By Tom Polansek More than 5,000 U.S. meat and food-processing workers have been infected with or exposed to the new coronavirus, and 13...
Meat Plant Closures, Absenteeism Rise With Workers’ Fear of Coronavirus, Lack of Safety April 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10...
EPA Again Declares Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Not Carcinogenic January 31, 2020 By Tom Polansek The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it finished a regulatory review that found glyphosate, the most widely used...
New Hog Slaughterhouse Rules Please Firms, Worry Food Safety Advocates September 18, 2019 By Tom Polansek U.S. food safety and the health of plant workers will be at risk from new federal rules that allow meat...
Weed Killer Chemical Glyphosate Is Not a Cancer Agent, Says EPA, Contradicting Juries May 1, 2019 By Tom Polansek The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that glyphosate, a chemical in many popular weed killers, is not a...
Government Relief Bypasses Farmers Who Lost Stored Crops in Floods April 2, 2019 By Tom Polansek The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator an eyeful of...
U.S. Hog Farmers on Alert Over African Swine Fever Disease October 23, 2018 By Tom Polansek U.S. hog farmers are ramping up safety procedures and leaving animal-feed ingredients imported from China in storage in an attempt...
Arkansas Judge: 6 Farmers Can Spray Controversial Chemical Dicamba April 3, 2018 By Tom Polansek An Arkansas judge has ruled that six farmers in the state this summer can spray a weed killer made by...
Monsanto Loses Bid to Stop Arkansas Ban on Herbicide Dicamba February 20, 2018 By Tom Polansek An Arkansas judge has dismissed a Monsanto Co. lawsuit aiming to stop Arkansas from blocking the use of a controversial...
Arkansas Board Stands by Plan to Limit Controversial Dicamba Herbicide January 4, 2018 By Tom Polansek Arkansas agricultural regulators stuck with a proposal on Wednesday to prohibit sprayings of a controversial weed killer after mid-April, despite...