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Agriculture
5:37 pm
Thu September 27, 2012

Mud and Moonscape: Missouri towns struggle with flood recovery

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"It is pure sand dunes," Atchison County Sheriff Dennis Martin said, of Corning, Mo. land still covered with sand a year after surging Missouri River waters receded. "Before the weeds started growing up, it looked like the moon."
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Down the road, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the flood's casualties. It closed after waters rose three feet high. Then the water sat there for months.
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A mud line marks how high the waters went on the 1893 Gothic Revival building.
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A toilet graveyard sits behind the church.
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The one-room 1912 schoolhouse behind the church is still caked with dried-up mud the river left behind. It also sustained water damage in 1952 and 1993.
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The waters put this schoolhouse stove under water. Church elders don't know if and how they will re-open the church.
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But Sheriff Martin says Corning is resilient. "We're going to see crop ground ... that has been renovated and the expense they are going to try to get this back in production has got to be phenomenal. But it is their life … it’s their home."
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Back in April, Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock headed to Tekamah, Neb., to see how planting was going for farmers on the Missouri River floodplain. The river's surging waters put thousands of farm acres in Nebraska under water last summer, causing more than $100 million in crop losses in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

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Intersection
6:00 pm
Mon May 7, 2012

Life as a rural teenager

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Watch the show and join the conversation on the Intersection website.

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Under the Microscope
5:53 pm
Thu April 26, 2012

Rural doctor shortages and prenatal care

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One-year-old Bryce Grawe sleeps in his crib at his family’s home in Macon, Mo. When he was born, doctors in Moberly thought his heart was abnormally large, but doctors in Columbia determined otherwise.
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On this week's show, we’ll debunk some myths about forensic science and learn how a rural doctor shortage affects some patients.

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Science, Health and Technology
5:41 pm
Thu April 26, 2012

Women in rural Missouri face obstacles to prenatal care

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Chandra Grawe, 32, of Macon, Mo., hugs her five-year-old daughter Veronica. Grawe had both of her children at a hospital in Moberly, a 30-minute drive from Macon.
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Kayde Myers stands in front of a friend’s home in Macon, Mo. Myers is nearly eight months pregnant with her first child, a girl, who she plans to deliver in Moberly.
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By Marie French and Charles Minshew

There is a shortage of primary care physicians in rural areas and more than half of Missouri counties have no OB-GYN specialists, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. KBIA’s Marie French takes us to Macon, where many pregnant women often drive 30 minutes or more to get care. 

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Business Beat
11:00 am
Thu April 19, 2012

Trying to keep rural towns alive

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A small group gets the discussion rolling at the Big Rural Brainstorm in Newton, Kan.
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This week on the show, people in rural areas are trying to figure out how to keep youth – and jobs – in their areas. Plus, college graduates could have a better opportunity getting a job than graduates have in the past.

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Business Beat
10:56 am
Thu April 19, 2012

Trying to keep rural towns alive

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A small group gets the discussion rolling at the Big Rural Brainstorm in Newton, Kan.
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This week on the show, people in rural areas are trying to figure out how to keep youth – and jobs – in their areas. Plus, college graduates could have a better opportunity getting a job than graduates have in the past.

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