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Agriculture
10:16 am
Mon March 18, 2013

GMO labeling laws on deck in the Midwest

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Labels at Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. near Hermann, Mo., do not indicate if products contain genetically modified organisms.
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At Swiss Meat and Sausage Co., production manager Glenn Brandt steps into a 34-degree Fahrenheit cooler where 700-pound cow carcasses hang from meat hooks to dry.
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In the company's packaging room, Brandt reads from a hefty roll of hickory smoked beef sausage stickers: “No antibiotics added, raised without added hormones, all natural, minimally processed."
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Swiss Meat customers may not be asking for GMO labeling but polls show over 90 percent of Americans are interested in knowing if there are GMOs in their food.
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The company processes 2 million pounds of meat a year -- from beef to pork to buffalo to deer.
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Just south of Hermann, Mo., Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. processes 2 million pounds of meat a year -- everything from cattle to hogs to buffalo to elk.

And everything gets a label.

“No antibiotics added, raised without added hormones, all natural, minimally processed," Glenn Brandt, the production manager for Swiss Meat, reads from a hefty roll of hickory smoked beef sausage stickers.

What this label does not indicate, however, is whether or not the sausage contains genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

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Under the Microscope
6:58 pm
Fri February 22, 2013

The science behind genetically modified seeds

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Researchers at DuPont Pioneer’s facility near Des Moines, Iowa, test these varieties of corn.
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This week, we’ll hear from Harvest Public Media’s Science of the Seed Series.

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Agriculture
6:24 pm
Fri February 22, 2013

Seed science pushes toward higher yields

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Researchers at DuPont Pioneer’s facility near Des Moines, Iowa, test these varieties of corn.
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At an open house at DuPont Pioneer’s Dallas Center Corn Research Center near Des Moines, Iowa, retired corn breeder Bill Ambrose marveled at the tools available today to do the job he did for nearly 40 years.

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Agriculture
2:37 pm
Fri January 4, 2013

Field Notes: The year's top stories in agriculture

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For the Harvest Network, the drought was the top story in agriculture in 2012. Here, a dry corn field outside Columbia, Mo. photographed in July 2012.
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Livestock producers struggled to find hay for their animals due to burnt-up pasture. This shot was taken in Linn, Mo. in August 2012.
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The drought also helped drive cropland prices to record highs. This plot in Saline County, Mo. photographed in October 2012, is worth more than $10,700 an acre.
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The dry, hot weather also caused a corn shortfall that drove U.S. corn exports to record lows.
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In November and December of 2012, grain barges on the Mississippi River were carrying lighter loads due to the drought.
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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.

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