Erica Hunzinger
Erica Hunzinger is the editor of Harvest Public Media, based at KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri.
Born and bred in central Illinois, Erica branched out to the University of Missouri-Columbia for her journalism degree and later earned an MA in Humanities (with an emphasis on poetry) from the University of Chicago.
Previously, Erica was the politics, education and criminal justice editor at St. Louis Public Radio. For five years before that, she was a member of The Associated Press' Central Region editing desk, where she took a keen interest in working on regional agriculture stories. Erica also spent time on copy-editing desks at The °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Journal in Wilmington, Delaware, and The °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina.
She's a farmer's granddaughter, quite familiar with the smell of cow manure and processed soybeans, and tries to nurture flowers and plants in her spare time.
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Held up over disagreements over federal food stamps, the first draft of the 2018 farm bill arrived Thursday, bearing 35 changes to that program,... -
Big cities in the Midwest are gaining ground on the rural communities that, for many decades, have thrived on the edges of urban development. -
The statistics are clear: Rural America is deeply impacted by the opioid crisis, especially farmers and farm workers. What’s not so easy is figuring out... -
About 16.4 million people who receive federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits would not have a say in how to spend about half... -
Lawsuits filed in Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri against the makers of the herbicide dicamba will be centralized in the federal court in St.... -
Partisan politics may meet its match in the 2018 farm bill. The massive legislation, versions of which will be introduced this spring in the U.S. House... -
Since the George W. Bush administration , the federal government has doled out millions of dollars with the promise to expedite access to broadband... -
There’ve been five rounds of negotiations over the decades-old North American Free Trade Agreement in recent months, but little movement toward a re... -
Updated 12:30 p.m. Nov. 2 — Sam Clovis, who ran President Donald Trump's campaign in Iowa, has withdrawn his nomination to the U.S. Department of... -
A bill to overhaul the federal agricultural guestworker program cleared its first hurdle Wednesday and is headed to the full U.S. House. The Republican...
