When the harvest fails, follow the pattern.
A crop disease devastates farms across the Midwest. Infection clusters, seed dependence and financial pressure suggest the collapse may have been made profitable long before the first field failed.
Soil science, crop failure, agricultural economics. Symptoms in a field do not, by themselves, establish who caused a disease outbreak. The inquiry compares legitimate plant-pathology findings with field visits, trial records and commercial claims, asking how much the evidence can actually support.
Pushes the team into food systems and the politics of dependency.
A biological crisis becomes a mechanism for market capture.
Get to know the recurring investigators, or explore the other cases in reading order.
