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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The ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government, now into its third week, is reaching ever deeper into the lives of people far from the... -
After a year that saw persistently low prices for many agricultural products 鈥� exacerbated by the retaliatory tariffs imposed on U.S. goods 鈥� farmers... -
Updated at 3 p.m. Dec. 20 with Trump signing legislation 鈥� The long-awaited final version of the farm bill was unveiled Monday night, and it hews... -
In a lab at George Washington University, painted lady butterflies flutter in mesh houses. This is where assistant professor Arnault Martin and his... -
Farmers know every year they鈥檙e going to encounter surprises from things out of their control, like drought or pests. This year, great growing... -
Farmers started forming co-ops nearly a century ago, primarily to get better prices for their crops. They pooled their resources, put up storage bins... -
A daunting trifecta is threatening many Midwest farmers' profit margin: wet fields, stubbornly low crop prices exacerbated by a trade war with China 鈥� and some twists from the new tax law. -
Farmers and agriculture groups are digging through the details of the new North American trade deal, called the United States Canada Mexico Agreement,... -
Michael McEnany always knew he wanted to be a farmer. Both of his grandfathers were, and he 鈥渁lways loved tagging along with my Grandpa Ed.鈥� Both of his... -
More farmers are using cover crops to keep water, soil and nutrients from running off fields. But while many studies have shown the agronomic and...
