Kathleen Masterson
Kathleen Masterson was Harvest Public Media鈥檚 reporter based at Iowa Public Radio in Ames, Iowa. At Bowdoin College in Maine, Kathleen studied English and Environmental Studies and was torn as to which one she鈥檇 have to 鈥渃hoose鈥� when finding a job. She taught high school English for a few years, and then swung back to science when she traveled to rural Argentina to work on a bird research project. She returned home to study science journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduate school she went on to work as digital producer for NPR鈥檚 science desk before joining Harvest.
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The U.S. corn crop is enormous. And about a third of it doesn't go to cereal or cows 鈥� instead, it helps run your car. But government ethanol subsidies have meat and dairy producers up in arms over the high cost of their main feed grain.