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 first version of the 2018 farm bill has only minor changes to one of the programs most farmers hold dear and what鈥檚 widely seen as their primary... -
Held up over disagreements over federal food stamps, the first draft of the 2018 farm bill arrived Thursday, bearing 35 changes to that program,... -
Animal feed mixed from ingredients sourced around the world could be carrying more than the vitamins and nutrients livestock need. Seven different... -
One farmer says he has seen hog prices drop to the point where it may cost some farmers more to raise a pig than they can sell it for 鈥� and he worries about lower sales. -
Updated April 4 to clarify the export percentage 鈥� China matters to the U.S. pork industry, as more than a quarter of all hogs raised here are shipped... -
Big cities in the Midwest are gaining ground on the rural communities that, for many decades, have thrived on the edges of urban development. -
Updated March 13 with details of settlement 鈥� U.S. corn growers, grain-handling operations and ethanol plants will see a slice of a $1.5 billion... -
When a man places 40 dozen eggs on the conveyor in the check-out line at the grocery store, it begs the question: What鈥檚 he going to do with all of them? -
As agriculture intensified in the 20th century, summers in the Midwest became wetter and cooler. An MIT study published this month looked at whether... -
No matter how far fruits or vegetables travel, whether they鈥檙e grown organically or conventionally, they鈥檙e packed with vitamins, minerals and other...
