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Romaine contamination is making other lettuces more expensive

by Mitchell Hartman
Dec 4, 2018
Consumers are paying more for iceberg lettuce and other leafy greens.
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Hurricane means fewer North Carolina sweet potatoes

by Andy Uhler
Nov 22, 2018
The state provides most of the nation's fresh supply; Florence wiped out 20 percent of the crop.
Jimmy Burch, owner of Burch Farms in North Carolina, said he lost about a third of this year's sweet potato crop because of rain from Hurricane Florence.
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Trade war means more donations to food banks

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Nov 22, 2018
To blunt the pain of tariffs, the government is buying more than $1 billion in surplus food. Much of that will go to food banks.
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Why are E. coli outbreaks so hard to trace?

by Andy Uhler and Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 21, 2018
Sprawling supply chains are part of the problem, but new technology could help.
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Lots of soybeans with no place to go

by Andy Uhler
Nov 6, 2018
A Chinese tariff on the U.S. crop has shut down a critical market.
Soybeans are loaded onto a truck before delivery to a grain elevator in June in Dwight, Illinois. 
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Who will grow our food?

by Andy Uhler
Nov 6, 2018
As prices fall and costs squeeze farmers, the young opt against lives of hard work and low wages.
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Retaliatory tariffs could be a boon for U.S. food banks

by Bret Jaspers
Oct 24, 2018
Some crops from U.S. farmers losing money from a trade spat with China will be redirected to food banks across the country.
Volunteers sort pears at a San Francisco food bank in 2017.
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Weather and trade tensions worry tobacco farmers

by Andy Uhler
Oct 23, 2018
Farmers in North Carolina face losses from recent storms and Chinese tariffs.
A tobacco field in North Carolina. China is the largest consumer of the state’s tobacco.
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Weather and trade tensions worry tobacco farmers

by Andy Uhler
Oct 23, 2018
Farmers in North Carolina face losses from recent storms and Chinese tariffs.
A tobacco field in North Carolina. China is the largest consumer of the state’s tobacco.
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Exemptions for steel tariffs are still in limbo

by Amy Scott and Phoebe Unterman
Oct 2, 2018
We check in with a stainless steel producer who is still trying to get reimbursed for tariffs he believes he wrongfully paid.
Steel is loaded onto a truck for shipping at the NLMK Indiana steel mill in March in Portage, Indiana.
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