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Topic on the Beat: Agriculture [1]

Top Agriculture Stories From SEJournal

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Updated April 2026

#SEJ2026 Live — Coverage of Conference Tours

  • Crops for climate tour [2]
  • Midwestern ag systems tour [3]
  • Nachusa Grasslands tour [4]

Toolboxes & TipSheets

  • Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage [5]
  • ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact [6]
  • Ag Census Offers Journalists Acres of Data [7]
  • Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time [8]
  • Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories [9]
  • CAFO SNAFU — Why Emissions Data Are So Hard To Find [10]
  • Irrigation Districts Are Key to Covering Coming Drought [11]
  • Farms and Ranches, Possible Cause, Cure of Climate Change [12]
  • Urban Farming a Fertile Bed for Crop of Local Stories [13]
  • Getting Started on the Sustainable Ag Beat [14]

Freelance Files

  • Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [15]

Inside Story Q&As

  • Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire [16]
  • Prize Winner Spurs Policy Change on Illinois PFAS Contamination [17]
  • High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation [18]
  • The Department of Yes — How the Pesticide Industry Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America [19]

Features & More

  • Targets on Their Backs … and Ours? Reporting on Immigrant Farmworkers [20]
  • Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [21]
  • Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [22]
  • Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [23]
  • Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories [24]
  • Global Satellite Data IDs Tensions Between Food Production, Biodiversity [25]
  • BookShelf: The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’ [26]
  • BookShelf: How Phosphorus Helped Feed a World — And an Invasion of Algae [27]
  • WatchDog: Will Zombie Ag-Gag Laws Ever Really Die? [28]
  • WatchDog: Exposed for Pig Pollution, Nebraska Governor Slimes the Reporter [29]
  • EJ Academy: Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation [30]
  • EJ Academy: From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story [31]

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[1] https://www.sej.org/topic-beat/agriculture [2] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-news/sej2026-live-coverage-conference-tours#Nguyen [3] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-news/sej2026-live-coverage-conference-tours#Starling [4] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-news/sej2026-live-coverage-conference-tours#Shaw [5] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/crop-cover-database-seeds-local-environment-coverage [6] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/endangered-usgs-pesticide-database-shows-wide-chemical-impact [7] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/ag-census-offers-journalists-acres-data [8] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/data-pesticide-incidents-openly-available-first-time [9] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/pesticide-data-can-ground-food-and-farm-stories [10] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/cafo-snafu-why-emissions-data-are-so-hard-find [11] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/irrigation-districts-are-key-covering-coming-drought [12] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/farms-and-ranches-possible-cause-cure-climate-change [13] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/urban-ag-fertile-bed-crop-local-stories [14] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/getting-started-sustainable-ag-beat [15] https://www.sej.org/publications/freelance-files/covering-food-systems-next-climate-action-battleground [16] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/tainted-water-tainted-power-inside-hog-farm-empire [17] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/prize-winner-spurs-policy-change-illinois-pfas-contamination [18] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/high-risk-reporting-yields-results-palm-oil-investigation [19] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/department-yes-how-pesticide-industry-corrupted-epa-and-poisoned-america [20] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/targets-their-backs-and-ours-reporting-immigrant-farmworkers [21] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/six-ways-cover-environmental-impacts-animal-agriculture [22] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/eat-local-climate-s-sake-no-eat-less-meat [23] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/tilling-storytelling-fields-food-ag-and-environment-beat [24] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/fill-your-plate-chicken-stories [25] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/global-satellite-data-ids-tensions-between-food-production-biodiversity [26] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/cost-losing-our-sacred-acres [27] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/how-phosphorus-helped-feed-world-and-invasion-algae [28] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog/will-zombie-ag-gag-laws-ever-really-die [29] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog/exposed-pig-pollution-nebraska-governor-slimes-reporter [30] https://www.sej.org/publications/ej-academy/missouri-florida-journalism-professors-join-classes-multistate-fertilizer-investigation [31] https://www.sej.org/publications/ej-academy/swine-waste-student-journalist-extracts-prize-winning-story [32] https://www.sej.org/search/node/type%3Apublication_item%20agriculture [33] https://www.sej.org/search/node/type%3Aheadline%20agriculture [34] https://www.sej.org/topics-on-the-beat [35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business [40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/food [42] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health [43] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [44] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife [45] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81