The Natural Resources Conservation Service lost nearly a quarter of its staff nationwide in 2025 after the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government. Many were local experts that help farmers with soil and water conservation efforts.

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American farmers are bracing for the impact of new tariffs exchanged between the U.S. and Canada on both their supply costs and their sales.

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After a year of late frosts, drought and hail damage in some areas, many apple orchards are not expecting a large yield this fall.

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President Trump recently began enacting a plan to import up to 300,000 tons of beef into the United States to be sold under market value. The head of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau told WPR the move destabilizes the domestic meat market.

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Nominations are now open for two of Farm Foundation’s flagship Next Generation programs: the January 2027 Cultivators Program and the 2027 Agricultural Scholars Program. Both programs connect promising students with agricultural leaders, researchers, and decision-makers while giving them opportunities to take their work beyond the classroom.

Faculty, advisors, and university staff have an important role to play. Even if you aren’t the person who can officially submit a nomination, you may be the first to recognize a student who would thrive in one of these programs. We encourage you to share these opportunities with students and colleagues and help ensure outstanding emerging leaders are considered.

Nominations for both programs are open September 1 through October 13, 2026.

January 2027 Cultivators Program

The Cultivators Program gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to step beyond the classroom and into conversations shaping the future of agriculture.

Selected Cultivators will attend the Farm Foundation Round Table meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, January 11–15, 2027, where they will present original research to an audience of approximately 200 senior leaders from across the food and agriculture sector.

Beyond presenting their work, Cultivators gain firsthand exposure to industry conversations, build their professional networks, and engage with leaders whose decisions influence agriculture and the food system.

Students must be nominated by a dean, director, or department chair. Self-nominations are not accepted.

Learn more about the Cultivators Program and nomination process

2027 Agricultural Scholars Program

For graduate students interested in the intersection of agricultural research, economics, and public policy, the Agricultural Scholars Program offers a year-long professional development experience.

Over 12 months, selected Scholars are paired with an economist from the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), providing an opportunity to learn from experts working at the intersection of research and agricultural policy. Scholars also participate in Farm Foundation events and experiences in locations including Washington, D.C., Toronto, and Philadelphia, expanding their networks while learning how research can inform real-world decisions.

The program is fully funded and designed for graduate students studying agricultural economics or related fields. Applicants must be U.S. citizens enrolled at an accredited North American university and must be nominated by their dean or department head.

Learn more about the Agricultural Scholars Program and nomination process

Help Us Find the Next Generation of Agricultural Leaders

Great candidates are often identified because a professor, advisor, dean, or colleague recognized their potential and encouraged them to pursue an opportunity.

If you know a student whose research, curiosity, and leadership potential deserve a bigger stage, now is the time to put these programs on their radar—and, if you are eligible to nominate them, put their name forward.

Nominations for the January 2027 Cultivators Program and the 2027 Agricultural Scholars Program close October 13, 2026.

Help us get the next generation of agricultural leaders in the room.

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Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts.

A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many Americans’ fears of contracting a foodborne illness.

The recalls have focused attention on the Trump administration’s decision to cut funding and staff at several public health agencies, and prompted questions about whether those changes have made consumers more vulnerable.

In fact, this year’s tally of food recalls is roughly in line with the numbers in recent years. About 48 million people each year get sick from a foodborne illness. But experts worry that the scope, severity and scale of outbreaks and their associated food recalls are growing.

While the United States sees some cyclosporiasis cases every year, this year’s outbreak has crushed records: Since May, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed more than 17,000 cases, with another nearly 12,000 reported cases still under investigation. The outbreak has resulted in at least 922 hospitalizations and two deaths.

Federal officials have blamed this year’s multistate outbreak on processed iceberg lettuce from central Mexico. The lettuce was brought to the U.S. by Taylor Farms, a distributor that supplies foods to thousands of restaurants and grocery stores, including Target, Taco Bell, Whole Foods, Kroger, Walmart, Costco and Jack in the Box.

The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration are investigating at least six other clusters for which a source hasn’t yet been confirmed.

Cuts at the CDC and FDA haven’t necessarily increased consumers’ chances of food contamination or outbreaks, said Jennifer McEntire, a food microbiologist and the founder of a food safety consulting firm. However, McIntire said, “I do think the cuts may have influenced the way outbreaks unfold.”

“I think there are valid questions around the timing of the response, the time it took for agencies to recognize the outbreak and to start to investigate it, get boots on the ground in Mexico,” she said.

Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert and professor emeritus at Northeastern University, noted that the U.S. is seeing more recalls affecting multiple states, rather than a small area. He added that more recalls are being tied to a problem earlier in the food chain — such as contaminated irrigation water at a large lettuce farm rather than, say, improperly stored deli meat at a sandwich shop  — which can spread the pathogen to a far higher number of people and make it harder to track and contain.

“We’re seeing so many people impacted, so many states impacted, and the recalls are dragging on for a long time,” Detwiler. “There’s ambiguity or lack of transparency over who’s even behind a recall.”

The White House dismissed concerns about the federal government’s ability to handle outbreaks.

“The Trump Administration has never cut FDA food inspectors or other frontline personnel for domestic disease response,” White House spokesperson Allison Schuster told Stateline in an email. “President Trump’s top priority is the health and safety of the American people, and the federal government remains capable of robustly addressing any future outbreaks.”

Fewer staff, less funding

Last year, the Trump administration laid off thousands of employees at federal public health agencies including the CDC, which tracks and responds to disease outbreaks, and the FDA, which oversees and regulates food safety.

While some of the layoffs were reversed through lawsuits or by Congress, the nation’s health public agencies remain at diminished capacity. The CDC workforce has been reduced by 28% since December 2024, the month before Trump took office, according to a Stateline analysis of data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Employee numbers at the FDA are down 23% during the same period.

Last year, U.S. inspections of foreign food facilities, such as the Mexican farming operation linked to the cyclospora outbreak, plummeted to historic lows following those staffing cuts. The FDA suspended a quality control program for food testing. And the parasite surveillance staff at the CDC, which responds to outbreaks, was downsized last year by the Department of Government Efficiency from 11 people to three.

Sandra Eskin, a food safety expert who worked in the office of food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the Biden administration, likened federal public health cuts to the game Jenga, where players construct a tower of wooden blocks and then remove the blocks one at a time while trying not to make the tower fall.

“I think that’s what we’re seeing,” said Eskin, who now leads a public health nonprofit called Stop Foodborne Illness, which advocates for stronger food safety policies. “Whether it’s cuts in staff, cuts in funding that trickle down to the states, or late responses to outbreaks — these are all pieces of wood in that game where you start pulling them out and then the whole thing collapses.”

The federal government also has delayed requiring companies to comply with new food safety rules, included in a law enacted more than a decade ago, that would help regulators track where food comes from and where it’s going during outbreaks.

Detwiler and other experts say the new rules could have helped speed the government’s sluggish response to the cyclospora outbreak investigation after Taylor Farms initially tried delaying the recall.

Last year, the Trump administration also drastically scaled back FoodNet, an early warning surveillance system that required tracking of infections caused by eight different foodborne pathogens. The federal-state collaboration is now only required to track two pathogens: salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E.coli. The other six pathogens, including cyclospora, were made optional.

The CDC says the change was made because other surveillance systems monitor those pathogens. But McEntire and other food safety experts want them reinstated on FoodNet.

State impacts

Infectious outbreaks like cyclosporiasis are typically investigated by state and local health departments, which largely rely on federal dollars distributed through the FDA and CDC. Public health has been chronically underfunded for decades under several administrations, experts say.

But the Trump administration since last year has terminated $5.78 billion in CDC grants — funds that were appropriated by Congress but had not yet been spent.

Michigan, at the center of the cyclosporiasis outbreak with the highest number of cases and clusters, is one of 23 states (plus the District of Columbia) that successfully sued the Trump administration in June 2025 over federal funding cuts.

Changes to federal funding last year affected public health infrastructure across Michigan, a representative from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services told Stateline. During the cyclosporiasis  outbreak, the state used its own resources to bolster local responses.

“While we are able to support this investigation on a local level, sustained investment in public health capacity is essential to ensuring Michigan can respond effectively to future regional and statewide public health threats,” said department spokesperson Lynn Sutfin.

Stateline reporter Anna Claire Vollers can be reached at avollers@stateline.org

Scientists say the strengthening El Niño is likely to be the largest ever recorded, increasing the chances of a warmer fall and winter in Wisconsin.

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Hundreds of pesticides are legal, but that doesn’t mean that their impacts on health are fully understood. Cleaning produce before eating it reduces your exposure.

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A western Wisconsin factory dairy farm will have to restart its effort to obtain a permit after an administrative law judge found this week that the Department of Natural Resource’s initial approval failed to do enough to protect local groundwater. 

The Ridge Breeze Dairy in Pierce County has applied to expand from a 1,700 cow farm to 6,500 cows. The expansion is expected to generate 78 million gallons of manure per year. Since proposing the expansion, residents in the region have protested against the effects that operating the largest factory farm in western Wisconsin will have on the local water. 

Residents worked to oppose the DNR’s permitting decision along each step and previously raised concerns that the dairy had named properties as sites for planned manure spreading although those property owners were never contacted. 

Last year, the DNR granted a modified permit for the dairy to expand. Pierce County residents and a western Wisconsin-based advocacy group petitioned for a contested case hearing against the DNR decision. That hearing was held in Eau Claire in March.

In a decision issued Monday, Administrative Law Judge Angela Chaput Foy stated that the permit doesn’t do enough to ensure Ridge Breeze’s operations protect the groundwater. 

Communities across western Wisconsin have struggled with nitrate contamination in their groundwater, the source of drinking water for much of rural Wisconsin. Nitrate contamination has been linked to blue-baby syndrome, thyroid disease and colon cancer. 

The driftless region of western Wisconsin is especially vulnerable to groundwater contamination because parts of the bedrock are susceptible to sinkholes and fracturing. 

Residents in the area have pointed to the vulnerability of streams near the Ridge Breeze site and previous manure spills on farms operated by Ridge Breeze’s owner, Breeze Dairy Group. 

“The permit conditions set Ridge Breeze up for anticipated compliance, they also command compliance, but the permit lacks a mechanism to verify compliance,” Foy wrote. “By omitting a mechanism to verify actual compliance, the (DNR) has issued a mandate while simultaneously denying itself the tools or data necessary to know whether that mandate is broken.”

Foy’s order sends the permit back to the DNR, which will now have to include additional conditions in the permit to detect if the state’s groundwater standards are being violated. This could include installing monitoring wells, a step that some farmers and agricultural industry advocates say is too costly. 

“Protecting groundwater requires more than simply telling Ridge Breeze to comply with the law,” said Adam Voskuil, senior staff attorney at Midwest Environmental Advocates. “The DNR must have a way to determine whether those requirements are actually being followed and whether groundwater is being protected. This ruling makes clear that paper promises are not enough.”

Residents who spent years fighting the farm’s expansion celebrated the decision.

“This victory started when a handful of neighbors sat down together in the a garage down the road from Ridge Breeze and decided that we wouldn’t let our health, water, or our farming heritage be treated as an afterthought,” said Ty Fisher, a Pierce County farmer and member of Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin. “For more than three years, locals here have organized, testified, and stood together. This decision proves that when we’re organized we can take on corporate ag special interests and win.”

Gregg Wolf, the CEO of Breeze Dairy Group, told Wisconsin Public Radio that the farm has already completed construction on the new buildings for the expansion and currently houses about 6,000 cows. He said the decision will simply require the farm to do more to reassure neighbors that the state’s rules are being followed. 

“Ridge Breeze has always been committed to protecting the environment and all the resources, including groundwater, and doing things properly, and having enough acres to manage nutrients properly,” Wolf said. “This is just another avenue that is going to be added to the permit to reassure the community that’s being achieved.”

Danny Akenson, an organizer with GROWW, said that successfully overturning a DNR permit decision is a sign that residents opposed to the influence of factory farms over state policy can secure wins. 

“This isn’t the end of our fight, but it is proof that our organizing works,” Akenson said. “We’re going to celebrate what Pierce County residents won, and then we’re going to carry that people power to Madison to win the common sense accountability we need over corporate factory farms like these. Communities in Wisconsin shouldn’t have to fight for protections one factory farm and one permit at a time.”

The Wisconsin State Fair got underway Thursday. The 11-day event in Milwaukee County has no shortage of cows, horses, games, unique foods, music and pickles.

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If the Sunshine Protection Act is signed into law, Wisconsin will have two months of sunrise at 8 a.m. or later in the winter.

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Tom Ritter and his son, Cory, had worked together with their families every harvest season for the past 20 years.

“My daughter loved to ride in the semi during harvest with my dad,” said Cory. “I remember seeing them leave the field together, and just the time that he took and the importance that he put on spending that quality time with family.”

But last year’s harvest was different; instead of Tom and Cory working together, tragedy hit the family on Aug. 20.

“Someone drove by and saw the semi was overflowing. The corn was still coming out, but it was overflowing, and thought this isn’t good and started knocking on doors,” Cory said. “My mother’s house is just a couple of doors in town, and they knocked on her door, and she called me and had a feeling we knew what happened.”

The area around the Ritter family farm in Blue Mound, Illinois, was surrounded by neighbors, police and firefighters trying to find Tom. 

It turned out that he had gone inside the grain bin to fix a piece of equipment. While he was working on it, the grain suddenly shifted and began to move, trapping him.

“I still have the mental image of all these neighbors that just showed up. It was a hot day, sweating and scooping as hard as they could, trying to see if we could save him,” said Cory.

Tom was found against one of the walls of the grain bin. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it. 

Half of grain bin accidents are still fatal

A recent report from Purdue University shows these types of accidents are up. In 2024, 34 grain bin entrapment cases occurred compared to 27 in 2023, representing a 25% increase.

Dr. Salah Issa, an assistant professor and extension specialist at the University of Illinois, said data on grain bin accidents is hard to come by. 

“The way we collect this data is mostly through news clippings. It’s hard to put a pin on where they’re occurring exactly, like if there is a type of grain bin where they occur more frequently than others,” he said.

According to Issa, grain storage in the 1960s was very different from today’s systems. Storage facilities were generally smaller and less mechanized before the widespread use of the large steel grain bins and grain-handling equipment common on many farms today. The earliest documented grain bin entrapment case occurred in 1964.

When a farmer is trapped in a grain bin, the odds of survival are poor. Historically, 70% of accidents were fatal, Issa said.

That fatality rate has come down, but it remains high.

”Strong efforts in training for rescue personnel have contributed to the reduction of the severity,” Issa said. But he adds that about 20 to 40 people die in grain bins annually, about half of all accidents.

 “Fifty percent is pretty bad.”

Issa said weather and spoiled grain play a role in most accidents. Grain can get too wet and clump at the bottom, or crust on top — creating a false sense of security for workers who walk on the surface.

“This happened a while ago, with a father and son,” he said. “A young boy went inside a grain bin that had a crust that had formed. The kid runs across the grain bin, and nothing happens, and the farmer runs after him, and when he reaches the middle, it breaks and he falls through it and ends up losing his life.”

Grain can also build up on one side of a bin and collapse like an avalanche, burying a worker.

Young and older workers are at the highest risk; about half of accidents involve people older than 60 and younger than 21.

“In 2010, we had a really bad case where three boys under the age of 20, I think one or two of them were 14 or 15, they ended up drowning,” Issa said.

Regulatory gaps leave many farms without oversight

Grain bin safety training is offered by universities, industry groups and safety organizations across the country. Still, reaching every farming operation remains a challenge.

Farms with fewer than 10 employees are exempt from federal safety standards, and the lack of oversight also extends to young family members who help on the farm.

“It’s a devastating issue, and it should never happen,” Issa said. “Because of the frequency rate, it’s very easy to run into the thought that this is not going happen to me until it ends up happening to you.”

Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union, said more regulation would help, but that added rules and costs would likely face pushback from farmers.

“Most farmers don’t appreciate a more regulatory framework, and it is difficult to implement and expensive to implement,” he said. “All the more reason before we get to that point that we expand on our efforts to educate farmers, to use voluntary incentives to put these things in place — and that really is important.”

As for Cory, he is unsure about regulation because every farm has its own unique situation.

“I don’t know if I’m for regulation because every farm is different, every situation is different,” Cory said.

For him, it’s more about slowing down and paying attention.

“Is it a dangerous job on the farm? Yes. Is it the most dangerous job on the farm? I don’t know. But it’s just, it’s all about people thinking twice, and that’s what it really takes,” he said.

New safety tools help, but prevention remains the best defense

Issa said that 95% of these incidents are preventable and that prevention starts by installing systems in or near grain bins that can safely break up clumps and address grain-flow problems from outside the bin.

An alternate solution that Issa and his team have researched is using compressed air to break up grain clumps from outside the bin, though the method can be time-consuming because it only breaks up clumps near the outlet, and the use of high-pressure compressed air requires strict safety precautions.

Issa said that as a last resort, if someone needs to enter a grain bin, all equipment should be shut off and disconnected from its power source. The equipment should also be locked and tagged so it cannot be turned on while someone is inside the bin. He added that workers should wear a harness and have a spotter outside the bin watching them.

“I have a story of three people who went into repair a grain bin, and a trucker came by not knowing they were in there and pulled out grain, and they ended up drowning,” said Issa.

California and Indiana have their own state workplace safety programs that enforce grain bin safety regulations. In California, if someone needs to enter a grain bin, written authorization from a supervisor is required, or a supervisor must be present during the entire operation. California’s regulations also require multiple safety procedures to be followed before entering the bin.

“They will have to install anchor points on the grain bin if the grain bin is older. If it’s newer, then there are anchor points there already,” said Issa. “When they’re installing the anchor points, they should work with a structural engineer so they can tell them how much weight this can support. They need an anchor point that supports at a minimum 1,000 pounds of force, but actually more is recommended.” 

In Nebraska, farmers can rent a robot called Grain Weevil that can be used while filling grain bins to help prevent fines — damaged kernels that tend to cluster in the center —  from building up and causing grain to spoil faster. The robot can also break up crusted grain while the bin is being emptied, reducing the need for farmers to enter the bin.

As for Cory Ritter, he continues honoring his dad’s legacy by prioritizing family while juggling everything else. In the middle of a day packed with work and interviews for this story, he still made time to watch his daughter compete in a high school track competition before leaving on a six-hour drive for work that stretched into the early morning hours.

“I remember what my dad told me: The job will get done. The important thing is to come home to your family every night,” said Cory. “It all starts with the personal responsibility of slowing down and thinking about what you’re doing, and that’s why I wanted to share this story, so that other people can think about that.”

And doing things even if they are hard. 

“It’s hard to drive past this (the grain bin) and still see these holes inside, but I looked at it in the fall, especially as all the harvest traffic goes by this road to our local co-op,” said Cory. “I told myself it’s a reminder for everybody how fast accidents can happen and that take time to slow down and be safe.”

This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major funding from the Walton Family Foundation.

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You’ve driven past cornfields. You’ve eaten corn. But did you know corn is older than the pyramids and is grown on every continent except Antarctica? 

Join Farm Foundation for Inside Food & Ag: Corn – from Ancient Grass to Global Powerhouse and discover the fascinating story behind the crop that’s all around us. Through living demonstrations, surprising facts, and an interactive food demonstration, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of one of the world’s most important crops. 

Thursday, September 24 | 2–6 p.m. 
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Registration is $25 per person and includes an engaging educational program, interactive demonstrations, and light appetizers and beverages. 

You’ll never look at your dinner plate the same again. 

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Corn and soybean growers have seen several years of low commodity prices and increased costs for supplies like fertilizer and fuel. That has many farmers worried.

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Gardening season is in full bloom in Wisconsin, but while your perennials and their pollinators are peaking, so too are those nasty plant diseases that can filter into your flowers and victimize your vegetables.

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The number of cases of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection linked to contaminated water or food that causes severe intestinal issues — has more than doubled to over 4,173 cases across 41 states this week, up from the 1,645 confirmed cases in 34 states reported last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cyclosporiasis causes symptoms that include watery or “explosive” diarrhea, nausea and stomach cramps. The surge in cases had made 2026 the worst year for the infection on record.

The CDC estimates that there are likely more than 7,400 additional cases that have not yet been confirmed. No deaths have been reported, but 308 people have been hospitalized, more than double the 141 hospitalizations reported last week.

State and federal officials suspect there are multiple sources of the outbreak, but they had reported that the cases in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia were connected to shredded iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico and sold by Taylor Farms. On Monday, however, federal officials said tests making the connection were a false positive.

Michigan, the first state to report an outbreak, reported 7,171 cases and 102 hospitalizations as of July 16. Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Indiana also have seen high case counts, alongside New York City.

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, which represents public health agencies across the country, said labs have a hard time tracking case connections because cyclospora is a parasitic genome that is more complex than the bacterial pathogens that cause other foodborne illnesses. As a result, state and local heath investigators must resort to reviewing restaurant and grocery receipts, menus and supply chain records, according to the organization.

“Case interviews and traceback investigations are often time intensive, creating a burden on state and local public health infrastructure,” senior analyst Heather Tomlinson and environmental health director Courtney Anderson wrote.

North Carolina had confirmed more than 560 cyclosporiasis cases as of July 20. Dr. Carl Williams, state public health veterinarian for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters on Tuesday that the state has relied heavily on its 86 local health departments to track cases.

Williams said twice weekly calls with the CDC also have been helpful.

“The CDC has been very responsive to us and the other states,” Williams said during the briefing. “But as you can imagine, I mean, it’s a lot to go through.”

Stateline reporter Shalina Chatlani can be reached at schatlani@stateline.org.

Attorneys say cases that claim the popular weedkiller causes cancer will have to change course to move forward in court after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the agriculture company last month.

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Twenty steers were stolen last week from a Marathon County farm, and now farmers, feed stores and auction houses are asking for help finding the cows.

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For 150 years, silos have been a fixture of the Corn Belt, but efforts to preserve them have been haphazard.

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New federal rules for dicamba aim to help cotton and soybean farmers control weeds. But the herbicide, which can kill other crops and trees, remains controversial.

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