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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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Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
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.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
Livestock producers struggled to find hay for their animals due to burnt-up pasture. This shot was taken in Linn, Mo. in August 2012.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
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.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
The dry, hot weather also caused a corn shortfall that drove U.S. corn exports to record lows.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
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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