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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John Peterson farms corn and soybeans in Jackson, Minnesota, and came to the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, in late August to see what鈥檚 new and to... -
Consumers are buying more certified organic fruits and vegetables every year, and in the Midwest and Plains states, much of it is grown on small farms.... -
Veterinarians and officials are hoping to keep a deadly foreign virus from infecting the American hog industry. African swine fever has been making its... -
When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, people can end up with infections that don鈥檛 respond to available medicines. -
When communities watch young people grow up, go off and never return, remaining residents and politicians often bemoan there鈥檚 been a 鈥渂rain drain鈥� 鈥�... -
After months of verbally sparring with trade partners, the United States is poised to implement wide-reaching tariffs Friday on imported goods, and one... -
Federal rules in place since January 2017 have not curbed the use of antibiotics in pork production, according to a new report from the Natural... -
Bruce Carney raises cattle, poultry and a few sheep on his 300-acre farm in Maxwell, Iowa. He no longer grows any grain, but is preparing for new crops... -
Some conservative House Republicans made it clear Friday in voting down the 2018 farm bill: They鈥檙e not interested in a farm bill without working on... -
At The Law Shop in Van Meter, Iowa, attorney Amy Skogerson untied a piece of blue yarn from around a bunch of craft sticks. Each stick had a word or...
