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Washington-based award-winning journalist covering agriculture and energy including competition, regulation, federal agencies, corporate consolidation, environment and climate, racial discrimination and labour, previously at the Food and Environment Reporting Network.

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Tom has been a journalist for Reuters in Chicago since 2011. He writes primarily about food and agriculture, and has reported on disruptions to global fertilizer and grain supplies from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He also covers U.S. livestock production and meatpacking companies including Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods and JBS. Tom was part of a team of reporters that Reuters named as Journalists of the Year in 2016 for coverage of Monsanto. He also won awards from the North American Agricultural Journalists.