Seth Bodine
Seth Bodine was KOSU's agriculture and rural issues reporter from June 2020 to February 2022.
Previously, Bodine covered agriculture, business and culture for KBIA, the NPR affiliate station in Columbia, Missouri. He also covered the 2020 Missouri Legislature for the Missouri Broadcasters Association and KMOX-St. Louis.
He was also formerly an intern at Missouri Business Alert, Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Springs Gazette. His work has been picked up by dozens of publications, including U.S. News & World Report, The Associated Press and The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.
Bodine graduated with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English creative writing from Colorado State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Making a Thanksgiving feast will cost more this year as the pandemic’s effect on the economy drives up food prices.
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KOSU and StateImpact Oklahoma won 29 awards from the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, Professional Chapter for stories that aired during 2020.
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In the cattle industry, four companies control about 80% of the meat processing industry. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make new rules to make the market more competitive.
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Officials in the rural town of Lone Wolf in southwestern Oklahoma have been stealing public money from its residents, according to a new investigation by the Oklahoma auditor’s office.
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Many farmers and ranchers spray to help control weeds or pests that might destroy their crops, but the influx of marijuana farms in Oklahoma is posing a challenge to that practice.
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The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority plans to beef up its inspection staff. This comes as the industry booms, with more than 8,000 registered grows. It’s a new effort to change the agency.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants farmers to do more to offset climate change. But there’s not enough money in two major programs to draw in all the farmers who are interested.
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Since Oklahomans passed medical marijuana in 2018, 8,630 growers have opened in the state, serving nearly 10% of the state’s population with medical marijuana licenses. The rapid expansion is stressing rural electric and water infrastructure.
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The infrastructure bill moving through Congress includes billions of dollars to modernize the electric grid. One of its goals is to make the system less vulnerable during severe weather.
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The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has updated its consumption advisory list of lakes with fish that may have mercury. Seven lakes have been added to the list, including Lake Hefner and Lake Tenkiller.