ICE Crackdown Is Impacting Minnesota’s Farms and Food System, Officials Say
- Global Agribusiness
- January 16, 2026

The American apple industry is concentrated almost entirely on a handful of varieties. Just 15 apples account for roughly 90 percent of the market. In contrast, Central Asia’s thousands of wild apple varieties offered untold diversity from trees that had borne fruit across centuries of cultivation. On the second half of the expedition in 2005,
READ MOREThe analysis, shared first with Civil Eats, was conducted by Prospect Partners this month and is based on updated data released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in early March. OPM shared data in January that showed the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) lost nearly a quarter of its staff since President Donald
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If you haven’t had the chance or pleasure to grow heirloom tomatoes, try it this year. There are slicers, beefsteaks, cherries, and more to explore when it comes to the passed-down, open-pollinated tomatoes out there. If you have grown them before, you may be interested in adding another variety. While older heirlooms may have widely
READ MOREPrecision farming technologies gather data from a variety of points, such as GPS coordinates from tractors, seeding rates from planters, pesticide volumes from sprayers, moisture readings from soil probes, and yield estimates from combines. The services—from Bayer, Deere, Corteva, Trimble, and others in the ag-tech sector—increasingly use artificial intelligence to detect patterns, weaving together farmers’
READ MOREIn a bipartisan effort to address farmers’ economic woes, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) introduced a bill Thursday that would provide farmers with more detailed information on fertilizer pricing, while Klobuchar also joined with Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) to introduce a bill to expand domestic fertilizer production. Senator
READ MOREChavez co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) in 1962 and died in 1993 at the age of 66. His work as a union leader and civil rights activist is remembered through César Chavez Day on March 31, and in the names of countless streets, government buildings, and more. On Wednesday, a New York Times investigation
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