Top Agriculture Stories From SEJournal

Updated November 2025

Toolboxes & TipSheets

• Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage [2]
• ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact [3]
• Ag Census Offers Journalists Acres of Data [4]
• Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time [5]
• Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories [6]
• CAFO SNAFU — Why Emissions Data Are So Hard To Find [7]
• Irrigation Districts Are Key to Covering Coming Drought [8]
• Farms and Ranches, Possible Cause, Cure of Climate Change [9]
• Urban Farming a Fertile Bed for Crop of Local Stories [10]
• Getting Started on the Sustainable Ag Beat [11]

Freelance Files

• Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [12]

Inside Story Q&As

• Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire [13]
• Prize Winner Spurs Policy Change on Illinois PFAS Contamination [14]
• High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation [15]
• The Department of Yes — How the Pesticide Industry Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America [16]

Features & More

• Targets on Their Backs … and Ours? Reporting on Immigrant Farmworkers [17]
• Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [18]
• Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [19]
• Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [20]
• Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories [21]
• Global Satellite Data IDs Tensions Between Food Production, Biodiversity [22]
• BookShelf: The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’ [23]
• BookShelf: How Phosphorus Helped Feed a World — And an Invasion of Algae [24]
• WatchDog: Will Zombie Ag-Gag Laws Ever Really Die? [25]
• WatchDog: Exposed for Pig Pollution, Nebraska Governor Slimes the Reporter [26]
• EJ Academy: Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation [27]
• EJ Academy: From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story [28]

 

 

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