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.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Ag & Water Desk reporter Madeline Heim reports from a dewatered Mississippi River lock in October 2023. Credit: Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Today is a big day here at the Ag & Water Desk. It’s the kickoff of our first-ever NewsMatch campaign — our first time asking you, our followers, to support our team’s great work.
As a reader of this newsletter, you already know the value our agriculture and environmental coverage brings to people throughout the Mississippi River Basin. Our reporters work tirelessly to produce journalism you can count on to inform and connect the watershed’s communities. Our central staff ensures that work is collaborative, accurate, and widely available in areas where it’s needed. This is important work, and we need your support to keep it going.
Thanks to our NewsMatch campaign, we can make your donation go even further. Starting today — through December 31 — NewsMatch will double your gift of any amount up to $1,000.
It works like this: Your one-time gift of up to $1,000 will be matched dollar-for-dollar. If you choose to make a monthly donation, that amount will also be doubled, times 12, up to $1,000. Altogether, we can earn up to $15,000 in matching funds from NewsMatch!
Reporters, editors, students and friends of the Desk visited Cooper's Landing at the Missouri River to learn about the endangered pallid sturgeon in September 2024. Credit: Sara Shipley Hiles, Ag & Water Desk
We’re proud to be part of a national campaign to strengthen the financial sustainability of news organizations that are nonprofit, independent, and dedicated to public service.
