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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Story, headline updated Nov. 22 with ruling 鈥� A U.S. appeals court has agreed to the EPA's request for more time to implement the emissions-reporting... -
The tax reform bill passed Nov. 16 by the U.S. House could slow development in the wind energy sector by reopening a two-year-old deal. One industry... -
Plant breeder Jessica Barb is on a mission to improve how sunflowers self-pollinate, a trait that'll be increasingly important to farmers are wild bee... -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture won鈥檛 go forward with rules meant to make it easier for small livestock producers to report possible unfair treatment... -
A new study says small patches of native prairie plants provide a range of conservation benefits to Iowa鈥檚 landscape and could reduce water pollution... -
Galen Fick milks 50 Brown Swiss cows every day on his farm in Boyden, Iowa, where his family has been in the dairy business for generations. Life as a...
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Even as wind energy production has grown in recent years to be a large part of the country鈥檚 energy portfolio, a chill around federal funding for... -
Sam Clovis has a doctorate in public administration, is skeptical that humans have a role in climate change and pushed theories suggesting former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. -
Applying large amounts of pesticides to farm fields can have negative effects on babies born to mothers living nearby, according to new research. The... -
As President Donald Trump continues to fill political appointments, his nomination for the top science job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture is...
