Amy Mayer
Amy Mayer is a reporter based in Ames. She covers agriculture and is part of the Harvest Public Media collaboration. Amy worked as an independent producer for many years and also previously had stints as weekend news host and reporter at WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts and as a reporter and host/producer of a weekly call-in health show at KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska. Amy鈥檚 work has earned awards from SPJ, the Alaska Press Club and the Massachusetts/Rhode Island AP. Her stories have aired on NPR news programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition and on Only A Game, Marketplace and Living on Earth. She produced the 2011 documentary Peace Corps Voices, which aired in over 160 communities across the country and has written for The New York Times, Boston Globe, Real Simple and other print outlets. Amy served on the board of directors of the Association of Independents in Radio from 2008-2015.
Amy has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Latin American Studies from Wellesley College and a master鈥檚 degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Amy鈥檚 favorite public radio program is The World.
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More than 2 million people in the U.S. work in or near agriculture fields that are treated with pesticides. The Environmental Protection Agency has... -
On July 28, 2017, a central Iowa emergency dispatcher received a 911 call from a man in a corn field. 鈥淚 had workers that were detasseling,鈥� said the... -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture鈥檚 recently released 2017 Census of Agriculture data show the amount of land in the largest federal conservation... -
Fears of a highly contagious and deadly pig disease have prompted officials to cancel the World Pork Expo in Iowa this June. -
Farmers along the Missouri River and its tributaries are still assessing damage from recent flooding. But beyond the farms in parts of Iowa, Nebraska,... -
At Hummel鈥檚 Nissan in Des Moines, Kevin Caldwell sells the all-electric Leaf. Driving one is basically the same as driving a typical gasoline or gas... -
After more than 20 years, an early tool of genetic engineering in crops is doing more than just killing pests. It鈥檚 providing environmental benefits,... -
In January 2018, a handful of farmers at a major Iowa pork industry gathering attended a session on the threat of foreign animal diseases. A year later,... -
The Department of Agriculture publishes the price, sales and inventory of the country's many agricultural products. Because of the partial government shutdown some of those reports aren't happening.
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Updated Jan. 22 with Farm Service Agency reopening 鈥� The long tentacles of the partial federal government shutdown are reaching especially deep into...
