Livestock Producers' Drought Aid Held Up By Congress
As one of the worst droughts in 50 years ravages the Midwest, livestock producers are left without a safety net, watching their herds suffer or be sold because there’s nothing else to do. Farmers...
View ArticleWhen Midwest Farming And Tourism Intersect, Cautious Optimism Prevails
Are Midwestern farmers overlooking an opportunity ripe for the picking?Farm-based tourism attractions like “u-pick” berry patches, wine tastings, dude ranches and guided hunting trips have operated in...
View ArticleCrate Question Looms Over Pork Producers
Craig Rowles grew up on an Iowa farm, and like a lot of farm kids, he’s done his share of heavy lifting.“I know what that means to carry feed in 5-gallon buckets through the mud and through the snow...
View ArticleWhat If Congress Doesn't Pass A Farm Bill?
Roy Pralle is an 85-year-old retired farmer from Latimer, Iowa. He spends most afternoons playing cribbage with other retired farmers at Dudley's Corner, a diner attached to a gas station in...
View ArticleFamily On The Family Farm
Brandon Fahrmeier had a nice job as a sales rep in Ohio for a large company. He and his wife had a nice suburban home. Then they had kids. The Fahrmeiers wanted their two daughters to grow up as they...
View ArticleGrateful To Be Home
Rose Alderson is a bright-eyed, energetic grandmother who loves her home a few miles outside of Nickerson, Kan.It’s the home her father was raised in and where she raised her kids, but the house is not...
View ArticleFrom Pastime To Passion
Aaron Troester’s life both did, and didn’t, turn out exactly the way he planned.The 29-year-old farmer in the north-central Nebraska town of O’Neill was pouring honey into jars from bees he keeps when...
View ArticleFarmers Put Aside Differences, Push For Farm Bill
The farm bill expired Monday and lawmakers didn’t pass a new one, thanks largely to election-year politics.Despite the partisan bickering in Washington, though, many in farm country are working...
View ArticleNewspaper Series Faults Big Beef
What should you know about the beef on your table? The Kansas City Star answered that question with a three-part series on the beef industry.Harvest Public Media reporters also contributed to The...
View ArticleAmerica's Big Beef
Just how much influence does Big Beef have in Cowtown?On Monday's Up to Date, we’ll talk with Mike McGraw from The Kansas City Star and Peggy Lowe and Jeremy Bernfeld from Harvest Public Media, who...
View ArticlePublic Research For Private Interests
Agricultural colleges in the top five beef-producing states have become quasi-arms of the cattle industry, selling science to corporate bidders who set the research agenda with their dollars.In the 150...
View ArticleJudging A Cow By More Than Its Cover
Backstage behind the cattle pens at the giant livestock show at the American Royal in Kansas City, Mo., “cow fitter” Maddee Moore was awash in glamour goods.“There’s a large blower that you use, and...
View ArticleBeef Feedlots Grapple With Endless Waste
You think you deal with a lot of bull crap? Allan Sents needs a front-end loader and a dump truck to deal with all the cattle manure he’s up against. Literally.Sents and his wife Deanna co-own...
View ArticleDrugged-Up Horsemeat From U.S. Showing Up In Europe
Silky Shark was a beautiful animal and a successful race horse. Over the course of his career he earned over $100,000 for his Kentucky owner.But Silky Shark ended up as meat on someone’s plate – most...
View ArticleLow Mississippi River Levels Could Leave Farmers In Fertilizer Crunch
Southbound barges on the Mississippi River carry grain destined for world markets.Those barges regularly pass northbound tows with thousands of tons of fertilizer heading to Midwestern ports and,...
View ArticleWhen Midwest Farming And Tourism Intersect, Cautious Optimism Prevails
Are Midwestern farmers overlooking an opportunity ripe for the picking?Farm-based tourism attractions like “u-pick” berry patches, wine tastings, dude ranches and guided hunting trips have operated in...
View ArticleCrate Question Looms Over Pork Producers
Craig Rowles grew up on an Iowa farm, and like a lot of farm kids, he’s done his share of heavy lifting.“I know what that means to carry feed in 5-gallon buckets through the mud and through the snow...
View ArticleWhat If Congress Doesn't Pass A Farm Bill?
Roy Pralle is an 85-year-old retired farmer from Latimer, Iowa. He spends most afternoons playing cribbage with other retired farmers at Dudley's Corner, a diner attached to a gas station in...
View ArticleFamily On The Family Farm
Brandon Fahrmeier had a nice job as a sales rep in Ohio for a large company. He and his wife had a nice suburban home. Then they had kids. The Fahrmeiers wanted their two daughters to grow up as they...
View ArticleGrateful To Be Home
Rose Alderson is a bright-eyed, energetic grandmother who loves her home a few miles outside of Nickerson, Kan.It’s the home her father was raised in and where she raised her kids, but the house is not...
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