farming

Each summer, Lake Erie is plagued by toxic cyanobacterial blooms fed by phosphorus runoff from farm fields. Michigan is struggling to reduce the pollution by 40%.

Since the 1990s, cyanobacterial blooms have become increasingly common each summer in western Lake Erie. The blooms are cause by an overabundance of nutrients, namely phosphorus, that spills into the lake off farms.

Glyphosate is the best-selling farm chemical ever in American agriculture. $2.8 billion in annual sales and roughly 280 million pounds applied annually on U.S. crop fields, most of it on corn and soybeans in Michigan and other Midwest farm states.

Josh Schaeding serves up some burgers and local history at the Maple Grille.

Michigan is experiencing drought conditions in places. Rain would be good, but too often spring rains become intense storms because of climate change.

A recent University of Michigan study found that women farmworkers in Michigan face unique occupational stressors, such as gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, reproductive health concerns, pregnancy challenges, and work-life balance issues.

Some sustainable agriculture programs in Michigan say their federal funding has been paused.

Today, sorting fact from fiction when it comes to immigration raids in West Michigan. Then, an art exhibit in East Lansing that asks us to think a little deeper about what’s on our plate. And, a researcher talks about neuroscience finds for managing hard emotions.

Michigan retailers have until December 31st to transition to selling only cage-free eggs. That change is the result of 2019 legislation that banned eggs from birds raised in cages at farms with over 3,000 egg-laying hens.

Today, translating campaign rhetoric into real talk about trade and tariffs. Also, the grinding hard work of modern agriculture, and an innovation that might be enough to keep one Michigan family in the game. Plus, an elegant and insightful history about the utopian vision of Detroit’s Shrine of the Black Madonna.