A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Zemua Baptista stands outside his chicken barns near Seward, Nebraska in 2020. A first-generation Black American, Baptista is a new young face in Nebraska production agriculture. Credit: Chris Clayton, DTN/The Progressive Farmer
Desk reporters and editors get together online once a week to brainstorm, share updates about what we’re working on, and learn together in quick trainings and panels. At one of these calls last month, veteran agriculture journalist Chris Clayton — an editor with DTN/The Progressive Farmer and a mentor with the Desk — brought along a couple of his federal sources to talk about the importance of covering the next Census of Agriculture.
Our reporters peppered the USDA staffers with questions. Why does this data matter? How are the ways it’s collected changing with the times? Who is missing from these numbers — what stories aren’t they telling? And most importantly, when can we dig in?
The latest five-year Ag Census was released last week. Our team got right to work unpacking the findings and talking to real farmers and advocates about the implications.
The result was a complex, intensely collaborative story — four news outlets and five reporters in the byline, including three of our Report for America corps members and two of our expert mentors, with photos from even more of our partner outlets and additional contributions by our editorial director and our graduate assistant at the Missouri School of Journalism. Their piece was released late last week for any newsroom to run for free.
We know that collaboration across newsrooms, media formats, communities and state lines is key to telling the story of a deeply interconnected, societally vital ecosystem like the Mississippi River basin. We’re proud to share pieces like this one that exemplify this work.
By Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest; Erin Jordan & Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette; Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; and Chris Clayton, DTN/The Progressive Farmer — Feb. 16, 2024
Click through for a map of where the 17-year Brood XIII and 13-year Brood XIX will emerge this spring — the first time since Thomas Jefferson was president that these two broods have emerged simultaneously.
By Keely Brewer, The Daily Memphian, and Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette — Feb. 16, 2024
Adult periodical cicadas climb along tree branches. Courtesy: University of Missouri Extension
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