Field Notes

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. Consumers increasingly want the texture and taste of white bread but the nutritional benefits of whole grains. I n this week's episode of Field Notes, Harvest Public Media's Luke Runyon reports on a new variety of wheat called Snowmass that could help meet that demand .

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. The drought was easily the biggest story on the farm beat in 2012 . But this past year, many of the stories filed by Harvest Public Media reporters focused on food politics and the divide between large industry groups and proponents of organic, sustainable and local foods. HPM's Peggy Lowe joins me for this week's Field Notes to talk about the past year's top

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. Maybe you didn’t notice the last time you bought a popcorn and coke at the movie theater or warmed up a bag of popcorn in the microwave, but the retailers that brought it to you took a big hit from the 2012 drought. The drought caused one of the worst popcorn harvests in recent memory. In this week's episode of Field Notes, Harvest Public Media’s Peter Gray

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. All year long, Washington lawmakers have been saying they want to pass a full five-year farm bill during 2013. Though leaders of the House-Senate conference committee say they’re close, they acknowledged earlier this month that won’t be happening and that they're pushing it off until January. In this week's Field Notes, Harvest Public Media's Amy Mayer

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. When you think of moving to a housing development in the suburbs, you might imagine golf courses, swimming pools and rows of identical houses. But that could be changing. There’s a new model springing up across the country that taps into the local food movement. In this week's Field Notes, Harvest Public Media reporter Luke Runyon reports that farms --

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. Thanks to tight competition, hog farmers all over the country are feeling a push to expand or get out of the business. That means indoor confined animal feeding operations – or CAFOs – are growing even in the most environmentally sensitive areas. In this episode of Field Notes, Clay Mast ers reports for Harvest Public Media on a CAFO fight in Iowa. We also

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. Head to the grocery store to pick up a steak or pork chop and take a look at the packaging. New rules that just went into full effect force meatpackers to detail where the meat was born, raised and slaughtered. The meatpacking industry wants Congress to repeal those rules and there’s talk lawmakers may do so in the next farm bill. But the new labels got me

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. Everyone knows the Midwest is a strong part of America’s breadbasket. But it’s also cradle to a huge pumpkin crop. That means this Thanksgiving, hungry families all over the country will finish off their holiday meals with a little slice of the Midwest. In this week's Field Notes, we feature a story about the Heartland's pumpkin crop from Harvest Public Media

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. Joel Salatin has become one of the rock stars of the local food movement. He’s written books, appeared in documentaries and schedules speaking engagements nationwide. Among foodies , he’s a celebrity. The move to source locally has taken hold across the country, but still faces many hurdles. And it’s not for everyone. Harvest Public Media reporter Luke Runyon

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. For our special series “ In the Shadows of the Slaughterhouse ,” Reporter Peggy Lowe and I interviewed immigrant children in Noel, Mo., and Garden City, Kan., whose parents work for Tyson Foods poultry and beef plants. It’s often backbreaking and disgusting work. That’s why many of the kids we interviewed don’t want to follow their parents into the plants.