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JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the arduous work of cutting meat for American consumption. The story of how two men cooked up a scheme to solve that problem is the focus of our latest audio collaboration, with the Revealpodcast. Reported by FERN senior editor Ted Genoways, “Immigrants on the Line,” is a harrowing and contemporary tale. It’s also part of our new multi-format vision for FERN. Other stories that came out of this reporting include a Politico Magazine analysis co-bylined with FERN Staff Reporter Teresa Cotsirilos and a 4-minute radio report for Harvest Public Media.
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“The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem” by Robert Langellier, published with Grist. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue that dominates the region’s pastureland, runs from Missouri and Arkansas to the coast of North and South Carolina. It stays green all winter, allowing cows to graze year round. But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic and causes illness, fever, and severe discomfort in the animals. At long last, scientists and farmers are attacking the problem from different angles to end the scourge of toxic grass once and for all.
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“Trump said Democrats would take away your hamburgers. He’s the one who might.” was published with The New York Times. FERN Senior Editor Ted Genoways unpacks the history of how meat companies have used vulnerable workers as a source of labor, and what it would mean if the latest such population — recent immigrants, many of them refugees and asylum seekers — were forced out of the country in large numbers.
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