Harvest Public Media
Harvest Public Media provides rich multimedia reports on all aspects of agriculture. Check below to read, view and listen online to the latest stories. Tune in to Morning Edition and All Things Considered to hear broadcasts of select stories.
Harvest Public Media is a collaboration of public media stations across the Midwest. Partners are: High Plains Public Radio; Kansas Public Radio; KCUR in Kansas City; Iowa Public Radio; Nebraska Educational Telecommunications; KBIA in Columbia, Mo.; WUIS in Springfield, Ill.; KUNC in Greeley, Colo.; and Tri-States Public Radio in Macomb, Ill.
Latest Episodes
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After dueling reviews of research studies, scientific panels from the U.S. government and the World Health Organization are having a hard time agreeing…
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Has either of the two presidential candidates said anything about the Ogallala Aquifer?As part of its ongoing ag reporting, Harvest Public Media reporters…
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From Harvest Public Media:A successful program in Michigan that helps hungry families buy more healthy food is expanding across the country.This month,…
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From Harvest Public Media:The nights were often worse for Gabriel, even after long days working on the production line at a pork slaughterhouse in…
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From Harvest Public Media:Expansion in the country’s beef cattle herd is bringing cheaper meat prices to the grocery store just in time for the summer…
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From Harvest Public Media:Monarch butterflies are disappearing. Scientists agree that in the last 20 years, populations of the black and orange insect…
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From Harvest Public Media:A group of Nebraska farmers is suing the giant seed and chemical company, Monsanto, in federal court saying the company’s…
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From Harvest Public Media:The country’s top agriculture official, Tom Vilsack, is declining to comment on some of the largest mergers the farm economy has…
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From Harvest Public Media:We all learned it as kids: Old MacDonald has a farm and on that farm he has a cow that says “moo.” But why? Why do cows…
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From Harvest Public Media:Every spring farmers and ranchers intentionally burn their fields to jumpstart the natural process of renewal. But those fires…