Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch

Fraud and weak USDA oversight chip away at integrity of organic food industry – 8/3/2022

—   (Sidebar) Fraudulent farmers live lavishly until caught

FIRST PLACE — Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch

Fraud and weak USDA oversight chip away at integrity of organic food industry – 8/3/2022

—   (Sidebar) Fraudulent farmers live lavishly until caught

HONORABLE MENTIONS —Aaron Viner, Iowa Farmer Today
Tenant talk: Land availability and affordability challenge some young farmers – 1/14/2022

Lisa Held, Civil Eats
From Farmland to Frac Sand: In the Midwest, fertile soil is being excavated in pursuit of fossil fuels, while communities suffer  — 7/19/2022

Tim Hearden, Farm Progress
Rise in partisanship complicates farm bill: With red areas redder and blue areas bluer, finding compromise will be more difficult, political pros say — 11/10/2022

SECOND PLACE — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz

Farmers want the right to jailbreak their John Deere Tractors – 8/25/2022

THIRD PLACE — Sierra McClain, Capital Press

A many-headed monster: Illegal marijuana’s devastating impacts on agriculture — 1/27/2022

FIRST PLACE — Rachel Wagoner, Farm and Dairy

Balancing love, loss and life after a farmer’s suicide 9/20/2022

HONORABLE MENTION — Mikkel Pates, AgWeek — 5/16/2022

Music master Anne Waltner comes home to partner in parents’ farm

SECOND PLACE — Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ — 12/11/2022

THIRD PLACE — Ximena Bustillo and Steven Overly, Politico

This cheeseburger explains your bigger grocery bill — 4/13/2022

FIRST PLACE — Phyllis Coulter, Illinois Farmer Today 

Harvest Help: Sisters share sustainable ag, humanitarian projects — 8/6/2022

SECOND PLACE — Gabriel Pietrorazio, Civil Eats

This Mother-Daughter Team is Sharing Food Traditions from the Ho-Chunk Nation  — 11/23/2022

THIRD PLACE — Gil Gullickson, Successful Farming

Hometown Hero, Matinee Missionary  —  4/6/2022

FIRST PLACE — Gil Gullickson, Successful Farming

Seed Treatment Skirmish: Location, Weather and Pest History Help Determine Payoff of Corn and Soybean Seed Treatments — July 2022

HONORABLE MENTION  — Sierra Dawn McClain, Capital Press
New game plan: How targeted grazing in public lands is changing – 6/16/2022

Des Keller, Progressive Farmer/DTN
The New Cash Crop: Farmers venture into the carbon-sequestration market — November 2022

Chelsea Dinterman, Successful Farming
Blooming Biologicals: Ancient technology fits into modern agriculture — August 2022

Gil Gullickson, Successful Farming
Metabolic Madness Gains the Upper Hand — March 2022

SECOND PLACE — Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch

Proposed CO2 pipelines thrust South Dakota into billion-dollar debate over carbon capture technology and climate change — 5/2/2022

CO2 pipelines could affect the land, lives and livelihoods of S.D. property owners — 5/11/2022

THIRD PLACE — Laurie Bedord, Successful Farming

Turning to Autonomy: Lack of Labor and Escalating Machinery Costs Lead a Nebraska Operation to Consider Autonomous Machinery — November 2022

FIRST PLACE — Dave Dickey, Investigate Midwest

It’s time to put an end to tractor dealer embedded software license agreements— 7/27//2022

HONORABLE MENTIONS — Elaine Kub, “Kub’s Den,” Progressive Farmer/DTN
Schadenfreude: That Feeling Commodity Producers Get When Bitcoin Tanks — 1/26/2022

Pamela Smith, “Editor’s Notebook”, Progressive Farmer/DTN

Title IX, 37 Words That Changed Everything — 6/23/2022

Urban Lehner, “An Urban’s Rural View,” Progressive Farmer/DTN

Did Organic Ag Tank Sri Lanka? – 8/1/2022

Ed White, The Western Producer

Vancouver’s grain-in-the-rain problem must be solved – 12/22/2022

Laura Rance, The (Winnipeg) Free Press

Food giants throw support behind regenerative farming — 9/30/2022

SECOND PLACE — Laura Rance, The (Winnipeg) Free Press

Tractors in the convoy may send bad message — 2/12/2022

THIRD PLACE — Michael Grunwald, Canary Media

You think the energy problem is hard? Meet the food climate challenge  — 3/21/2022

FIRST PLACE — Urban Lehner, DTN/Progressive Farmer
An Urban’s Rural View

GMO Labeling: The Saga Continues — 1/10/2022

Dealing With the Ghost of TPP — 2/12/2022

More Carrot, Less Stick, for Conservation — 2/20/2022

HONORABLE MENTION — Russ Quinn, Progressive Farmer/DTN

Rural Residents Need to Inspect Wells, Test Water for Safer Drinking Water  – 3/10/2022

Drought, Winds Fan Midwest Wildfires — 3/25/2022

My Experience With Needlestick Injuries — 10/14/2022

SECOND PLACE — Pamela Smith, “Production Blog,” Progressive Farmer/DTN

Confessions, Crops and Church — 1/28/2022

Is Your Love for Corn Hurting Soybean Yields? – 4/14/2022

The Last Rows of Summer – 11/4/2022

THIRD PLACE — ShayLe Stewart, “Sort & Cull,” Progressive Farmer/DTN

Being Thankful Where You’re Currently Planted – 4/4/2022

What a Live Cattle Market With Open Interest at a 6-Year Low Means – 8/1/2022

Why the Recent Hiccup in the Cattle Market? – 8/29/2022

FIRST PLACE — Dave Dickey, Investigate Midwest

APHIS needs to be held accountable for Envigo dog breeding failures  — 11/23/2022

HONORABLE MENTION — Jennifer Latzke, Kansas Farmer / Farm Progress
Public schools are economic drivers for our rural communities — 9/19/2022

SECOND PLACE — Elaine Kub, Progressive Farmer/DTN

The Answer is Almost Always ‘Sell Some Grain’ — 10/5/2022

THIRD PLACE — Urban Lehner, Progressive Farmer/DTN

In Defense of Conservation Easements  — 10/11/2022 

FIRST PLACE — Jennifer Latzke, Kansas Farmer/Farm Progress

Sold! Buyers bid on bison: Maxwell Wildlife Refuge’s annual sale of culled bison supports the herd and the refuge—  11/15/2022

HONORABLE MENTION — Des Keller, Progressive Farmer

Focused on tomorrow: Homestead Farms is determined to secure its future as the operation’s driving force battles ALS – May 2022

SECOND PLACE — Gabriel Pietrorazio, Next City

From A Vacant, City-Owned Lot To Chicago’s First Indigenous Garden —  8/22/2022

THIRD PLACE — Ed White, The Western Producer

Showing how it was done: Photo essay/video on vintage farm machinery demonstration – 9/22/2022

FIRST PLACE — Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News

Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines — December 2022

—   Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ – 12/11/2022

—   In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up – 12/22/2022

—   A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year – 12/28/2022

HONORABLE MENTIONS — Mary Kennedy, Progressive Farmer/DTN

Low Water Crisis on the Mississippi River

Sandbars and Saltwater Causing Serious Issues on Lower Mississippi River – 10/17/2022

How Low Can It Go? Mississippi River at Memphis Breaks Another Record – 10/24/2022

Mississippi River Not So Mighty Right Now – 10/31/2022

Phyllis Coulter, Illinois Farmer Today

International Agriculture: Reality of War

Reality of war shared by Ukrainian ag journalists – 7/16/2022

Idea exchange: Organic pork producers’ bond spans ocean – 7/30/2022

Food world: Advocates, farmers and politicians look at food security – 7/30/2022

Harvest Help: Sisters share sustainable ag, humanitarian projects — 9/6/2022

Marc Heller, Politico GreenWire

Dairy farmers grapple with climate change

'Cow power' goes dark as manure-to-electricity fizzles – 7/12/2022

Natural gas could power new chapter in manure-to-energy – 7/13/2022

Changing cows' diets could curb emissions. Will farmers dig in? – 7/14/2022 

Pamela Smith, Progressive Farmer/DTN

View From the Cab

Western Farmer Tackles Wind, Water and Weather Challenges – 5/1/2022

Young Ohio Farmer Carves Independent Path – 5/8/2022

Farmers Discuss Rain Drops and Downtime – 7/10/2022

Green Energy Clouds Future for Some Farmers – 8/21/2022

Kim Chipman, Mark Chediak, Marvin G. Perez, Elizabeth Elkin, Pratik Parija, Bloomberg

Climate Change

America’s Winter Lettuce Hub Set to Bear Brunt of Water Cuts – 8/16/2022

California's $45 Billion Wine Industry Faces Climate Peril — 9/7/2022

“Swampy’ Stench Haunts Florida's Orange Farms Devastated By Ian – 10/6/2022

Cows Are Too Stressed Out to Keep Up With Global Dairy Demand – 11/1/2022

SECOND PLACE — Bloomberg

David R. Baker, Dominic Carey, Kim Chipman, Elizabeth Elkin, Michael Hirtzer, Brian K. Sullivan, Will Wade

Mississippi River Drought

—   Drought Pushes Mississippi River Grain Shipping Rate to a Record — 9/28/2022

—   Mississippi River Drought Imperils Trade on Key US Waterway – 10/6/2022

—   Shrunken Mississippi River Slows US Food Exports When World Needs Them Most – 11/9/2022

THIRD PLACE — Carey Gillam, Aliya Uteuova – The Guardian / The New Lede –

The Paraquat Papers

—  Secret files suggest chemical giant feared weedkiller’s link to Parkinson disease – 10/20/2022

—  These farmers have Parkinson's disease – and claim a weedkiller is to blame – 10/21/2022

—  Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world? – 10/28/2022

—  Paraquat Papers Media Library

FIRST PLACE — Chris Clayton, Todd Neeley, Pamela Smith, Matthew Wilde, Progressive Farmer/DTN

Climate Smart Farming — November 2022

SECOND PLACE — Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest and Emily Featherston and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV

Program meant to help farmers in trade war overspent, lacked transparency and compliance checks — 10/24/2022

THIRD PLACE — Jeff DeYoung, Aaron Viner, Gene Lucht, Nat Williams, Phyllis Coulter, Benjamin Herrold, Iowa Farmer Today, Illinois Farmer Today and Missouri Farmer Today

Inflation in Rural America, Iowa Farmer Today, Illinois Farmer Today and Missouri Farmer Today – 7/15-7/16/2022

Adam Goldstein | Columbia Missourian / Investigate Midwest — (Originally published by the Columbian Missourian through a partnership with the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk.)

With Corn Belt inching north, farm diversification gains momentum - 8/17/2022

FIRST PLACE — Chelsea Dinterman, Successful Farming

Dive In? Skepticism regarding carbon markets reigns among farmers — April 2022

Blooming Biologicals: Ancient technology fits into modern agriculture — August 2022

Bay Watch: East Coast farmers in Chesapeake Bay watershed have faced decades of water quality scrutiny. Lessons learned may be coming to the Midwest. — October 2022

HONORABLE MENTION — Grey Moran, Civil Eats

Beginning Farmers, Farmers of Color Outbid as Farmland Prices Soar  – 3/10/2022

In the Battle Over Right to Repair, Open-Source Tractors Offer an Alternative — 4/27/2022

Agrihoods Offer Fresh Food and Community. Can They Add Equity to the List? — 10/14/2022

SECOND PLACE — Elizabeth Elkin, Bloomberg

Cows Are Too Stressed Out to Keep Up With Global Dairy Demand — 1/28/2022

Soaring Fertilizer Prices Are About to Increase the Cost of Food — 3/2/2022

Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security — 5/1/2022

THIRD PLACE — Gabriel Pietrorazio, Civil Eats

Meet the Group That’s Been Bringing Bison Back to Tribal Lands for 30 Years  – 7/26/2022

Native Farmers Push for More Equitable Training and Support in the Farm Bill — 11/1/2022

This Mother-Daughter Team is Sharing Food Traditions from the Ho-Chunk Nation — 11/27/2022