Jodi Cohen
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October 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Part 2:
One farmer couldn’t fight the water any longer.
He now has the only rice farm in Illinois.
You have to read this story and see these photos. Get to the end!
A collaboration between @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
One farmer couldn’t fight the water any longer.
He now has the only rice farm in Illinois.
You have to read this story and see these photos. Get to the end!
A collaboration between @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.
One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Part 2:
One farmer couldn’t fight the water any longer.
He now has the only rice farm in Illinois.
You have to read this story and see these photos. Get to the end!
A collaboration between @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
One farmer couldn’t fight the water any longer.
He now has the only rice farm in Illinois.
You have to read this story and see these photos. Get to the end!
A collaboration between @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/illi...