Top Agriculture Stories From SEJournal
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Updated September 2026
Issue Backgrounder
#SEJ2026 Live — Coverage of Conference Tours
Toolboxes & TipSheets
- Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage
- ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact
- Ag Census Offers Journalists Acres of Data
- Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time
- Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories
- CAFO SNAFU — Why Emissions Data Are So Hard To Find
- Irrigation Districts Are Key to Covering Coming Drought
- Farms and Ranches, Possible Cause, Cure of Climate Change
- Urban Farming a Fertile Bed for Crop of Local Stories
- Getting Started on the Sustainable Ag Beat
Freelance Files
Inside Story Q&As
- Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire
- Prize Winner Spurs Policy Change on Illinois PFAS Contamination
- High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation
- The Department of Yes — How the Pesticide Industry Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America
Features & More
- Targets on Their Backs … and Ours? Reporting on Immigrant Farmworkers
- Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture
- Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat
- Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat
- Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories
- Global Satellite Data IDs Tensions Between Food Production, Biodiversity
- BookShelf: The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’
- BookShelf: How Phosphorus Helped Feed a World — And an Invasion of Algae
- WatchDog: Will Zombie Ag-Gag Laws Ever Really Die?
- WatchDog: Exposed for Pig Pollution, Nebraska Governor Slimes the Reporter
- EJ Academy: Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation
- EJ Academy: From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story
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