Topic on the Beat: Agriculture [1]
Top Agriculture Stories From SEJournal
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Updated October 2026
Issue Backgrounder
#SEJ2026 Live — Coverage of Conference Tours
Toolboxes & TipSheets
- Grazing Data Unlocks Public Land Stories [6]
- Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage [7]
- ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact [8]
- Ag Census Offers Journalists Acres of Data [9]
- Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time [10]
- Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories [11]
- CAFO SNAFU — Why Emissions Data Are So Hard To Find [12]
- Irrigation Districts Are Key to Covering Coming Drought [13]
- Farms and Ranches, Possible Cause, Cure of Climate Change [14]
- Urban Farming a Fertile Bed for Crop of Local Stories [15]
- Getting Started on the Sustainable Ag Beat [16]
Freelance Files
Inside Story Q&As
- Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire [18]
- Prize Winner Spurs Policy Change on Illinois PFAS Contamination [19]
- High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation [20]
- The Department of Yes — How the Pesticide Industry Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America [21]
Features & More
- Targets on Their Backs … and Ours? Reporting on Immigrant Farmworkers [22]
- Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [23]
- Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [24]
- Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [25]
- Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories [26]
- Global Satellite Data IDs Tensions Between Food Production, Biodiversity [27]
- BookShelf: The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’ [28]
- BookShelf: How Phosphorus Helped Feed a World — And an Invasion of Algae [29]
- WatchDog: Will Zombie Ag-Gag Laws Ever Really Die? [30]
- WatchDog: Exposed for Pig Pollution, Nebraska Governor Slimes the Reporter [31]
- EJ Academy: Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation [32]
- EJ Academy: From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story [33]
All Agriculture Stories From SEJournal [34] All Agriculture Headlines From EJToday [35]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [37]
Chemicals [38]
Climate Change [39]
Disasters [40]
Economy & Business [41]
Environmental Health [42]
Food [43]
Health [44]
Waste [45]
Wildlife [46]
Public [47]