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Wisconsin’s seasonal migrant workers lack access to healthcare — until a mobile clinic pulls up to the farm

Thousands of Wisconsin’s migrant seasonal workers face barriers to getting basic healthcare. A Wautoma-based charity is helping fill that gap by taking its mobile clinic to farm fields, providing low-cost primary care medicine to workers mostly from Mexico.

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2026 Agricultural Scholars Wrap Up Their Year with Capstone Projects in Washington, D.C.

The USDA ERS/Farm Foundation Agricultural Scholars finished their year-long program with a week in Washington, D.C., where they presented their capstone projects, participated in the WASDE lockup and met with agricultural research and policy leaders. 

Offered in collaboration with the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), Farm Foundation’s fully funded, 12-month Agricultural Scholars Program helps graduate students gain practical experience in agricultural economics and policy. Each Scholar works with an experienced ERS economist and participates in conferences, Farm Foundation leadership experiences and visits with government agencies and agricultural businesses. 

Since its launch in 2020, the program has served 75 participants through 2026. The Washington trip was the final opportunity for this year’s Scholars to come together, share their research and learn from professionals across agriculture. 

The 2026 Scholars are: 

  • Eric Belleville, The Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics 
  • Hence Duncan, Oklahoma State University 
  • Elizabeth Dworkin, Iowa State University 
  • Parthu Kalva, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
  • Asa Dolbow Vann, Purdue University 

Presenting Their Capstone Research 

The capstone presentations were a key part of the Washington trip. Scholars presented their projects to USDA ERS economists, sharing their research and explaining its relevance to agriculture. 

The presentations brought together a year of mentorship and learning while giving Scholars experience discussing their work with a professional audience. Communicating research is an important skill as they prepare for careers in agricultural economics, policy and related fields.

Inside the WASDE Lockup 

Another highlight was participation in the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) lockup. USDA’s monthly report provides agricultural supply and demand forecasts used by producers, businesses and policymakers to understand commodity markets. 

Scholars saw the secure process surrounding the report’s preparation and release, gaining a closer look at how USDA protects market-sensitive information before publication. 

Farm Tours and Policy Meetings 

The week included a tour of Corteva’s Chesapeake Farms, a 3,300-acre research and demonstration farm along a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. Scholars learned about corn and soybean research, wildlife and habitat management, and farming practices that protect the surrounding watershed. 

On Capitol Hill, they met with Karl Anderson, Mike Schmidt and Brandon Honeycutt of the Senate Agriculture Committee, as well as Josie Montoney of the House Agriculture Committee. 

They also met with Sara Neagu-Reed of the International Fresh Produce Association, Brian Glenn of the American Farm Bureau Federation and BGR Group’s Kellie Adesina, a Farm Foundation board member. These conversations offered perspectives on agricultural policy and the work of congressional staff, agricultural organizations, and government relations professionals. 

At USDA, meetings with ERS leaders Kelly Maguire and Michele Esch, as well as Dr. Scott Hutchins, Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, introduced Scholars to agricultural research leadership within the department. 

The Scholars also met with Rebecca Nemec, Stephanie Morris and Abigail Edwards from USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist to learn more about the office’s work and how economic analysis informs public decisions. 

The Washington trip closed out the year with experience presenting research and learning how it is used. Through their capstone projects, the WASDE lockup and conversations throughout the week, Scholars built professional relationships and gained a better understanding of the work they may pursue after graduate school. 

Learn more about Farm Foundation’s Agricultural Scholars Program.

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Farming in the Age of AI: Recording Now Available

On October 13, 2026, Farm Foundation hosted “Farming in the Age of AI,” a virtual Forum exploring how emerging artificial intelligence technologies were being applied in agriculture. The conversation examined where AI was delivering measurable value, where adoption remained challenging, and how these tools might shape the future of farm management.

The Forum featured:

  • Dan Maycock, Co-Founder, Dataplai
  • Tim Marquis, Senior Product Manager, Precision Ag Analytics, John Deere
  • Alex Echols, Program Strategist, Agriculture, Campbell Foundation
  • John Dawes, Executive Director and Co-Founder, The Commons.

Participants discussed AI’s opportunities and limitations, along with the policy, workforce, and data considerations influencing its integration into U.S. agriculture. The discussion explored what was needed to turn technological advances into practical value for producers and the broader food system.

Missed the Forum? Watch the recording and explore the presentation slides.

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Aging farmers and the government want to save farms, but for many the cost is too high

A person wearing a green T-shirt, gray shorts and sandals walks along a mowed grassy path bordered by tall grasses and shrubs, with one hand raised to the forehead.
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Dan Kuebler is out on a hot August morning on what used to be his farm.

Kuebler grew fruits and vegetables on 30 acres in Ashland, Missouri, and for decades he sold his produce at the Columbia Farmers Market. 

“Ashland was a little, bitty, sleepy town in ’77 when we bought it,” Kuebler said. 

Then, small towns in southern Boone County started becoming homes to those working in nearby Columbia or Jefferson City. Kuebler watched farmland on his 2-mile dead end road get sold and broken up into parcels. As he neared retirement, he needed to come up with a plan for the future of his farmland. 

“I don’t want it split up into five-acre plots … and become a development. That is just like — that’s sacrilege,” he said. 

Kuebler began farming at the age of 40. For the next 33 years, he grew dozens of varieties of vegetables and eventually branched out into making fermented foods such as sauerkraut, pickles and kimchi. He balanced managing the farm along with his other job as an in-home physical therapist. 

Kuebler is passionate about local farmers providing food for their community. He was an active seller at the farmers market and advocated for the permanent shelter that now houses the market on the west side of Columbia. 

As new development encroached on his neighborhood, Kuebler wanted to protect his farm from being broken up.

“I don’t want to sell it to the highest bidder. I want it to stay in farmland. So how should I do that?” he said.

A person wearing a gray hat, orange T-shirt and gray shorts accepts a bouquet of orange flowers from a person wearing an orange top and cap while other people stand nearby.
Liz Graznak, owner of Happy Hollow Farm, hands Dan Kuebler a bouquet of flowers after paying for vegetables during an August visit to the Columbia Farmers Market. Kuebler sold produce at the market for more than three decades. (Cory MacNeil / Missouri News Network)

The demand for more housing often comes at the expense of farmland. Flat, cleared fields are ideal for development. 

Now some agriculture advocates are encouraging farmers and landowners to use a legal tool to ensure their land remains farmable. 

They believe the need is critical. At least 50 million acres of farmland in the Midwest are set to change hands by the end of the decade due in part to the average age of farmers and landowners.

Kuebler worked with a local land trust to attach what’s known as a conservation or agriculture easement to his property deed. It dictates that the farmland must remain farmland no matter who owns it — forever.

“You cannot subdivide it, you cannot sell it off for residential development or commercial development. That is the guiding principle,” said Nick Shapiro, executive director of the Greenbelt Land Trust of Mid-Missouri, the organization Kuebler worked with. 

Land trusts do the work of ensuring current and future property owners follow the stipulations laid out in agriculture easements. 

“The initial landowner who donates the easement knows, not only is there this legal document out there that binds future owners, there is also an organization out there that is required to look after that easement in perpetuity and to defend it and to make sure that it is upheld and respected,” Shapiro said.

‘Best use’ of land

In recent years, about 2,000 acres of American farmland a day have been lost or compromised by development, according to American Farmland Trust, a national land preservation organization. The group estimates another 18.4 million acres — an area almost the size of South Carolina — will be converted by 2040.

Development pressures come from urban sprawl, when metropolitan areas continue to creep outward, paving over once-rural places. But what’s known as “low-density residential” development is also a threat. 

Housing built in the country on large plots of former farmland repurposed nearly 7 million acres of agricultural land between 2001 and 2016. 

American Farmland Trust’s analysis shows rural housing development is especially high in Missouri, elsewhere in the Midwest and in the South. 

Josh Wright is with American Farmland Trust, where he helps landowners through the often yearslong legal and financial process of securing an easement to protect land from development.

“People who have spent their entire lives working their land, whether it be in their family for many generations or not, you become so attached to it and all of your effort could be snatched up and paved over as soon as you sell the property,” he said. 

But placing development restrictions on a piece of land could reduce its value by up to 65%. Exactly how much depends on a number of factors, including location, nearby development pressures and how restrictive the easement is.

“Whenever you go to sell your property, it’s going to be appraised, and that’s going to be judged at best, highest dollar — and they call it best use in the industry,” Wright said. 

In other words, the most profitable use, which farming generally isn’t.

“Unfortunately, it’s probably considered the worst use,” he said.

A bird flies over a grassy clearing surrounded by trees, with farm equipment, wooden boards, metal sheets and other materials scattered on the ground in the foreground.
A bird flies over Dan Kuebler’s equipment in August. (Kate Cassady / Missouri News Network)

 Twelve years ago, Congress expanded federal easement initiatives, setting aside about $450 million a year to compensate farm owners for a portion of reduced value of their land through a program known as ACEP-ALE, which stands for Agricultural Conservation Easement Program – Agricultural Land Easements.

That funding, which has since been increased to $650 million annually, filters through nonprofit organizations, such as land trusts, state and local agencies, or tribal governments, to essentially buy a property’s development rights from the farm owner.

Eric Gramlich works with Ozark Land Trust, a conservation organization focused on preserving land in Arkansas and Missouri. 

Although the government can provide a financial cushion to soften the blow of the drop in value a piece of property under easement will experience, Gramlich said it’s unlikely to be the landowner’s most lucrative option. 

“Even those payments would struggle to keep up with the demand and the price of land for commercial development or large scale subdivision development,” Gramlich said. “So I think the financial means, even for willing land owners, that’s a big challenge for them, and also a big challenge for us to rise up and … be on some sort of a playing field with the other competing interests for that land.”

More than 1 million acres of farmland have been preserved through easements since the federal program began in 2014. But more than half of that land is in just three states: Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. 

Currently, no farmland in Missouri has been restricted from development under the federal program. Illinois has 445 acres of farmland under permanent easements, and Iowa has 2,320 acres.



Gramlich said that’s because there still aren’t that many land trust organizations in Missouri, and the agricultural community is still learning about the option. 

“I’d like to think that we’ll be gaining more efficiencies in the program now that it’s been established, but it is generally a multiyear process to get the application in, the contracting paperwork, and then to actually do the boots-on-the-ground work of getting the easement in place,” he said. 

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill increased the federal easement program funding to $650 million annually, to be used to preserve both farmland and wetlands. 

But preserving farmland through easements is time-consuming, while losing farmland to development can happen rapidly. 

A few years ago the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the agency that administers the easement program, made an effort to “streamline” multiple parts of the process including land appraisals, surveys and certifying organizations such as land trusts. 

In mid-Missouri, Shapiro hopes the land owners out there who value their farm’s legacy will consider preserving it with an easement.

“The older farmers who are looking to get out might be willing to take less than top dollar if they know that there is someone who really wants to take their land and run it and manage it in a way that is consistent with their shared values,” Shapiro said.

A person's hands hold red peppers and green squash.
Dan Kuebler holds peppers and squash while waiting in line to pay for vegetables at the Columbia Farmers Market. (Cory MacNeil / Missouri News Network)

His organization, Green Belt Land Trust, was formed to preserve natural areas such as forests and wetlands. It expanded its work to farmland as development pressures increased.

“So much of mid-Missouri’s not just economy, but culture and heritage is based in farming,” Shapiro said. “There is an important role for us to play in helping to preserve that heritage as well.” 

Giving up the farm

On the north side of Kansas City, Kansas, Rick Mareske has been growing berries and forest farming on 40 acres of land for the past 20 years. His food gets to local customers through a community supported agriculture, or CSA, subscription program. 

Mareske and his wife are weighing options for the future of their business and farmland. They considered an easement for their property.

“The cons are, it’s expensive,” he said. “It’s like 20, 25 thousand dollars just to do it, and then you lose money.”

Mareske’s land is a financial asset he’s counting on for retirement income. He said he doesn’t want the years he spent caring for his land to be erased, but he can’t afford to sell for less.

“We’re trying to make it as beautiful as possible and as enticing as possible for someone to buy it and keep it going the way we have it,” he said.

With or without an easement, Mareske hopes the future of his land includes farming.

Meanwhile, in Boone County, after 33 years Dan Kuebler has stopped selling produce and preserves at the farmers market. He still goes each Saturday to buy his food for the week and catch up with his former customers as he shops. 

“I see them and we talk, and it’s like I really didn’t lose my community,” he said. 

Kuebler estimates that it cost him about $20,000 to place an easement on his land, most of that cost coming from the land survey and appraisal. He didn’t take advantage of the federal ACEP-ALE program and its compensation offer, even though his 30 acres of fields, forest and pastures dropped about $90,000 in value once development rights were stripped. 

He sold the land to another local farmer last year. The easement requires the land remain in agriculture and that the methods used to grow crops are sustainable or regenerative. 

There’s a small, old cabin on the property, and one of the more unique stipulations of the easement is that Kuebler gets to spend time there, and on the land, until he dies. 

“I really couldn’t give up the farm totally because I (am) so attached to it,” he said.

A person approaches the door at the side of a building.
Dan Kuebler walks into the cabin on land he protected from development through an easement. (Kate Cassady / Missouri News Network)

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2027 Farm Foundation Awards Nominations

Who is making a difference in food and agriculture today?

Nominations are now open for the 2027 Farm Foundation Awards, recognizing the people, organizations, and ideas creating meaningful impact across the food and agriculture sectors.

In June 2026, we celebrated Dr. Andrew Muhammad with the R.J. Hildreth Public Policy Award, Dr. Mya O. Price with the Emerging Leader Award, and Joel Harris with the Innovator of the Year Award. Agribusiness Management, 7th Edition, by Jay Akridge, John Foltz, Elizabeth A. Yeager, Brady E. Brewer, and Trey Malone were recognized as the Farm Foundation Book of the Year.

Who should we recognize next?

Now is your opportunity to recognize them. Nominations are open in five categories: 
R.J. Hildreth Public Policy Award 
Transformational Leadership Award 
Innovator of the Year Award 
Emerging Leader Award 
Farm Foundation Book of the Year Award 

Anyone may submit a nomination, including a self-nomination. Award recipients will be recognized in person at the Farm Foundation Round Table meeting in Toronto, Canada, in June 2027.

Know someone whose work deserves to be recognized? Tell us their story. 
Nominations close December 11, 2026.

Learn more about the award criteria and submit a nomination

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Controversial Pierce Co. factory farm appeals groundwater decision

Opponents of the Ridge Breeze Dairy expansion watch the contested case hearing Tuesday against the farm's permit in the standing room only overflow room at the Eau Claire State Office Building. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner)

A factory farm in Pierce County filed a lawsuit late last month appealing an administrative law judge’s decision that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources didn’t include enough groundwater protections when approving a permit allowing the farm to expand from 1,700 to 6,500 cows. 

The Ridge Breeze Dairy in Maiden Rock has long been the subject of local activism against the expansion, which is expected to generate 78 million gallons of manure every year. The initial DNR permit process drew significant public participation. 

The dairy is owned by the Appleton-based Breeze Dairy Group, which operates a number of farms in the state — some with a history of manure spills. 

Communities across Wisconsin are facing the effects of massive factory farms on their local water, particularly rural areas where residents get their drinking water from private wells. The groundwater around the Ridge Breeze site already has elevated nitrate levels, which have been linked to blue-baby syndrome, thyroid disease and colon cancer.

The DNR approved the expansion permit in February 2025. During the application process, the agency had to send the permit back to the farm operators once because it named nearby properties as sites for planned manure spreading although those property owners were never contacted.

After the approval, a group of local residents and the advocacy group Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin filed a lawsuit alleging that the permit did not do enough to ensure that the area groundwater was protected. 

Two days of hearings were held in Eau Claire in March and in August Administrative Law Judge Angela Chaput Foy ruled in favor of the residents, sending the permit back to the DNR to include a process through which the agency can verify that the farm isn’t harming the groundwater. 

“By omitting a mechanism to verify actual compliance, the Department has issued a mandate while simultaneously denying itself the tools or data necessary to know whether that mandate is broken,” Chaput Foy wrote.

In the lawsuit, filed Sept. 23 in Outagamie County Circuit Court, the farm argues that it’s “aggrieved” by being forced to verify it is following the law, mostly because it would have to pay the cost of digging groundwater monitoring wells. 

In recent years, Wisconsin factory farms and their allied advocacy groups have also filed lawsuits that argue the DNR lacks the authority to regulate their pollutants at all. 

Ridge Breeze argues that state law doesn’t include a mechanism through which the DNR can verify compliance with groundwater standards in a factory farm’s permit. 

“The ALJ concludes that the lack of mechanisms in the Permit to verify that Ridge Breeze’s practices comply with the standards is inherently contradictory to the mandate to assure compliance with those standards,” the lawsuit states. “The Decision thus improperly conflates the statutory requirement to assure compliance with a (non-existent) obligation to prescribe conditions that verify compliance. Nothing in [state statute] requires the DNR to require groundwater monitoring or some other mechanism to ‘verify’ compliance or detect non-compliance.”

The dairy points to parts of Chaput Foy’s decision in which she finds that the provisions included in the initial permit should be strong enough to protect the groundwater. 

“By disregarding substantial record evidence that showed the terms prescribed in the Permit were reasonable and sufficient to assure compliance with groundwater standards — including the ALJ’s own conclusion that the permit ‘sets Ridge Breeze up for anticipated compliance’ — the Decision is outside the range of discretion conferred upon DNR and is unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious, and should be reversed and/or remanded to the agency,” the lawsuit states. 

Danny Akenson, an organizer with GROWW, said in a statement that Ridge Breeze appealing the decision shows the farm cares more about its bottom line than being a good neighbor. 

“We fought for three years to make sure the state has a way to determine whether Ridge Breeze is contaminating our groundwater, and the judge agreed with us,” Akenson said. “Factory farm special interests care more about protecting corporate profits than protecting the groundwater Wisconsin families rely on. Ridge Breeze may have deep pockets for legal fees, but we’re organized, and we’re not going to let them off the hook.”

Rural areas reap economic benefits from wind and solar projects, new Midwest study finds

Across the central U.S., more communities are passing ordinances to regulate renewable infrastructure development. A study examines the economic impact of renewable energy in rural areas.

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Railroads are charging more to ship grain. US farmers may have to pick up the tab

Harvest season is nearing for many farmers. But the railroads that transport their harvested grain have raised their shipping costs with record-high diesel prices. That could mean lower grain prices for growers.

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G20 Summit in Milwaukee gives working people a platform to demand change

Dairy cows huddle at sunset on a farm in Manitowoc County. NAFTA helped drive a cycle of oversupply and low milk prices that put thousands of Wisconsin dairy farms out of business. (Photo by Andrew Kennard/Wisconsin Examiner)

President Trump has an uncanny knack for speaking to problems that Americans experience —and then taking actions that make  things worse.

Take international  trade, which most Americans see as in need of reform.  Trump talked about getting better deals and helping U.S. workers displaced by NAFTA and other global trade agreements. But  instead of helping working people, he then launched a series of  a trade wars that no one asked for, imposing high tariffs tht triggered retaliation and sent prices for consumer goods soaring, while alienating  close allies like Canada. 

The upcoming G20 ministerial meeting in Milwaukee from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 will feature leaders from around the world coming together to discuss these matters, especially trade, making Wisconsin the stage  for discussing global policy on everything from artificial intelligence to fuel prices.  World leaders including Trump will have the opportunity to hear from  working people, especially those who will take to the streets.

Long before  Trump campaigned on the promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and other “bad deals” for the U.S.,, Ross Perot during his unsuccessful bid for the Presidency in 1992 said he could hear  a “giant sucking sound” from NAFTA, as firms prepared to leave  the U.S. for countries where they could pay workers next to nothing.  That sound became  deafening in Wisconsin after President Bill Clinton signed NAFTA  into law in 1993. 

The deal took a heavy toll on the  dairy industry. Shortly before the agreement, in 1990, our state had about 34,000 operations milking cows.  As of August 2026, we have for the first time dropped below 5,000 licensed dairies. 

Even as the farms closed, production increased , along with exports.  The US Dairy Export Council notes that export values were $656 million in 1995, climbing to $8.32 billion in 2024. Wisconsin participates in these markets sending cheese, fluid milk, and whey to Canada and Mexico mainly.  Moreover, Wisconsin dairies produce about one million pounds of milk more than they did in 1995 – a 33% increase.

But more production hasn’t meant more stability. In fact, more exports have led to greater price volatility, hitting smaller farms harder because they tend to have smaller profit margins.  Adding insult to injury,  long before the Iran war the percent of farm expenses dedicated to fertilizer more than tripled, from about 2% in 2003 to just under 8% in 2025.  Trump’s tariffs, meanwhile, leave farmers especially in Wisconsin even more vulnerable to unforeseen economic disruptions. 

Amid these worsening economic conditions, Trump has campaigned on a promise to help dairy farmers, alleging that the Canadians are “ripping us off.” 

But Canada’s protections for it dairy farmers are not Wisconsin dairy farmers’ problem. In fact, Wisconsin farmers have begun seeking advice from their Canadian counterparts, expressing  interest in  the Canadian system.  Canada’s supply management system assures dairy farmers a fair price as industry stakeholders  including farmers  meet regularly to adjust supply and demand. 

Meanwhile, Trump’s renegotiation of NAFTA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in 2019, did not stop farms from closing as bankruptcies in the Midwest continue to rise.

Global trade agreements, including those negotiated by Trump, failed to deal Wisconsin farmers and  workers a better hand.

From when NAFTA was passed until it became the USMCA, Wisconsin lost nearly 10% of its industrial workforce, or over 46,000 jobs.

On a positive note, according to the High Road Strategy Center’s State of Working Wisconsin Report, years of manufacturing decline seem to be ending as 2025 boasted a record high median wage of $26.17.  Unfortunately for workers, that same report finds that rising inflation will eat into wage gains and inequality is worsening because Black workers are being left behind. 

Under the current global trade regime, workers find themselves between a rock and a hard place.  For instance, workers at CNH Industrial in Racine and Burlington, Iowa, went on strike in 2022 for 260 days and gained a new contract in 2023.  But then, workers at the Racine plant found their company announcing layoffs and plans to shift some production to Mexico in 2024. 

Iconic firms in Milwaukee like Master Lock had their workforces depleted in the 1990s after NAFTA was passed and production moved south. Master Lock totally closed in the city in 2024. 

Workers fed up with being treated like pawns by their corporate employers and elected political leaders  will convene in Milwaukee before and during the G20 talks. 

The day before talks begin, on Sept. 29, Citizen Action of Wisconsin will host a panel of folks representing farmers, labor, and the environment to discuss the current global trade regime and possible alternatives.  The next day, the Milwaukee Labor Council is calling on many of these same groups to stand together and protest. 

In terms of concrete demands, most of the groups attending these events support the recently introduced House Resolution 1286. With 51 co-sponsors and endorsed by multiple organizations, including Citizens Trade Campaign, the AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers (USW), International Association of Machinists (IAM Union), Sierra Club, National Family Farm Coalition, Public Citizen, and others, the Resolution calls on our leaders to include within trade deals fair wages for workers, effective anti-monopoly policies, strong environmental standards, and data protection policies and AI regulations. 

Free trade deals have cost Wisconsin considerably.  Thankfully, the working people hurt by  these deals still have the strength to make their voices heard.  It’s time for our lawmakers and  the other leaders at the G20 to listen to them, and start making deals to benefit working people instead of harming them.

Can purple corn replace some synthetic food dyes? Midwest scientists see potential

Shades of red extracted from an ancient corn variety held up to heat and other conditions typical of food processing and storage. Researchers are exploring whether this natural dye alternative could open new markets for Midwest farmers.

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