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Researchers at Michigan State University are working to create an outdoor lab that monitors the effects of solar arrays on farms and their crops across the state. The goal of the project is to use solar energy to improve agricultural production.

Seasonal workers from other countries arrive in Michigan each year through a federal visa program called H-2A. Growers say new higher wages threaten their business.

A conversation about how bird flu spreads and the animals could be impacted.

What Michigan farmers are up against in the changing climate and growing seasons. Also today, what’s wrong with Michigan’s housing stock. A discussion on a new study of statewide housing needs. Growing interest in native plants. Then, a short history of Gerrymandering in the United States and Michigan lessons about reclaiming representation.

Analyzing Michigan's "Uncommitted" vote from this week's presidential primary, new ways to connect small farms to city consumers, and celebrating Grand Rapids' Latino history.

The Lions' recent playoff victory, a Michigan Supreme Court case that could have serious consequences for Michigan's water, ties between Hillsdale College and the 2020 presidential election, and a trip to a magazine and concept shop in Detroit.

Journalist Danny Fenster spent 176 days as a political prisoner in Myanmar. We talked to him about what happened and the fight to get him home to Michigan. And, we took a trip to Wasem Fruit Farm as apple season kicks into high gear. Plus—mastadons! We talk to a University of Michigan paleontologist about what we're still learning about these magnificent beasts.

According to an official with the Michigan Farm Bureau, since January, 2021, prices for fertilizers have doubled and in some cases tripled.

National Farmers Union President Rob Larew spoke to the annual convention of the Michigan Farmers Union. He says farmers are getting less and consumers are paying more.

Today, on Stateside, we revisit our conversation with a Black farmer who grows organic produce in west Michigan, and our conversation with Former U.S.…