Field Notes

Field Notes: Marking the fifth anniversary of the Postville, Iowa raid

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:20:29 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Field Notes: 'The Midwest Farmer's Daughter'

Abbie Fentress Swanson and Bill Wheelhouse — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:52:32 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Field Notes: Using drones to capture a prairie burn in Missouri

Abbie Fentress Swanson and Scott Pham — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:17:43 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Field Notes: The aftermath of a grain explosion

Abbie Fentress Swanson and Jeremy Bernfeld — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:46:56 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Who knew storing grain could be so dangerous?

Field Notes: Missouri farmer lands starring role

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:29:52 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Missouri farmer Chris Chinn is taking on a high-profile role as one of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance’s “Faces of Farming and Ranching.”

'The Moo Man' casts light on challenges facing small dairies

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:00:00 +0000

This story is part of True/False Conversations, a series of in-depth interviews with the filmmakers of this year’s True/False Festival. Find the rest of them here or This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Field Notes: How nitrogen fertilizer killed crop rotation

Abbie Fentress Swanson and Amy Mayer — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:38:06 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

Field Notes: The year's top stories in agriculture

Abbie Fentress Swanson and Peggy Lowe — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:37:20 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

For this edition of Field Notes — our first in 2013 — we decided to take a look back at last year’s biggest stories in agriculture.

Field Notes: Drought will continue to haunt beef industry

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:19:27 +0000

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.