Johnathan Hettinger, Author at Food Revolution Network

Johnathan Hettinger

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Johnathan Hettinger is an enterprise reporter for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, focusing on climate change in Illinois.
Growing up in Central Illinois, Johnathan saw and had family members working in all aspects of agribusiness, from boots-in-the-field farming and raising livestock to spreading fertilizer, managing grain elevators and trading commodities.
Sadly, though, he didn't have a tractor for "Drive your tractor to school day" at Monticello High School.
Johnathan is a proud 2015 graduate of the University of Illinois, where he worked for four years at The Daily Illini, the best student newspaper in the state. After graduation, Johnathan worked at The News-Gazette, the daily newspaper in Champaign, Ill., where he covered the Champaign and Urbana municipal governments and the University of Illinois.

‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers

Internal company records show both Monsanto and BASF knew crop damage from their weed killer would be extensive. They sold it anyway. Read on to find out about their alarming campaign of denial and greed, all at the expense of farmers, food, animals, the environment, and consumers like you.

Johnathan Hettinger · April 7, 2021 · 16 min read