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Manure digesters seen as best hope for curbing lake pollution, but drawbacks...
Reading Time: 10 minutes Murky Waters: Part 2 This is the second installment of “Murky Waters,” a collaborative reporting project by The Capital Times and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism....
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How to make a digester profitable: Veggies and poker chips
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mike DeVries / The Capital Times This series, Murky Waters, is part of Water Watch Wisconsin, a project supported by The Joyce Foundation that is examining water quality and...
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Big farms, frac sand mines could feel force of judge’s groundwater ruling
Reading Time: 6 minutes About this report This is the first report produced in The Confluence, a collaborative project involving the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and students and...
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Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrant workers
Reading Time: 10 minutes More from this series America’s Dairyland and Trump in the rearview mirror as workers return to Mexico Listen to Alexandra Hall’s report on WPR’s Central Time, and her...
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America’s Dairyland and Trump in the rearview mirror as workers return to Mexico
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No sanctuary, fewer farmhands: Coping with the Trump agenda in America’s...
Reading Time: 10 minutes This story was collaboratively produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, Wisconsin Public Radio and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. You...
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How undocumented immigrants became the backbone of dairies — and how to keep...
Reading Time: 11 minutes This story was reported in collaboration with HuffPost as part of its Listen to America bus tour, which stops in Milwaukee Oct. 6. More on this topic from WCIJ America’s...
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As Trump disparages immigrants, Midwest dairy farmers build bridges to Mexico
Reading Time: 7 minutes This story is a collaboration between HuffPost and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. More on this topic from WCIJ How undocumented immigrants became the...
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Does Wisconsin produce more milk than any other state?
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Death on a Dairy Farm: What really happened to 8-year-old Jefferson Rodríguez
Reading Time: 27 minutes This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights...
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