Dana Cronin
Dana Cronin is a reporter based in Urbana, Illinois. She covers food and agriculture issues in Illinois for Harvest. Dana started reporting in southern Colorado at member station 91.5 KRCC, where she spent three years writing about everything from agriculture to Colorado’s highest mountain peaks. From there she went to work at her hometown station, KQED, in San Francisco. While there she covered the 2017 North Bay Fires. She spent the last two years at NPR’s headquarters in Washington D.C., producing for shows including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered.
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TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it.
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Large donors can put universities in potentially awkward positions when faculty conclusions conflict with the interests of those benefactors. Data collected by Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest show corporations have given at least $170 million to ag colleges in the past decade.
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A wet year threatened pumpkin farms with the threat of fungus, but the Midwestern 2021 gourd harvest looks healthy.
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Among the 23 species announced extinct recently by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was a freshwater mussel that once lined the banks of Midwestern waterways and the ivory-billed woodpecker, which used to fly through the Mississippi River basin.
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The USDA announced last week that it's investing $464 million in solar, wind and other renewable energy projects across rural America.
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The Midwest region of the U.S. has some of the highest rates of rented farmland in the country. And that can have environmental consequences.
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Just as people need to find ways to cool off in the summer, so do livestock. And the past few years for farmers have been a struggle.
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As summers become hotter due to climate change, farmers are finding it more difficult to keep their animals cool. Some are investing in new facilities and technologies to keep livestock safe.
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As states like Kansas and Oklahoma let their emergency declarations run out, they effectively take a pass on extra federal help with food stamps.
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COVID-19 vaccination rates are lower in rural counties than in urban counties, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.