Xcaret Nuñez
Xcaret Nuñez covered agriculture and rural communities for KOSU from June 2022 to September 2023.
She joined KOSU in June 2022 as a corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.
Nuñez previously worked at KBIA, the NPR affiliate in Columbia, Missouri, as a reporter, producer and anchor where she covered both community and education beats. She was also a Missouri Statehouse reporter for the Missouri News Network, covering the 2022 legislative session. Nuñez previously interned for Here & Now, NPR/WBUR’s midday news magazine program.
A first-generation college graduate, Nuñez graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in religious studies. She is originally from Yuma, Arizona, the Southwest city known as the “Lettuce Capital of the World” and “Sunniest City on Earth.”
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KOSU, StateImpact Oklahoma and Focus: Black Oklahoma won 25 awards from the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, Professional Chapter for stories that aired during 2021. -
More than three dozen rural Oklahoma businesses and agriculture producers will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. -
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is a flashpoint in Congress yet again as members work to renew the farm bill. And the debate comes in the midst of rising food insecurity across the U.S. -
Ranchers across the Great Plains are battling black vultures, a federally protected bird that has a reputation for killing newborn livestock. While the birds play a major ecological role, their expanding population is becoming a big nuisance for producers. -
A record number of Oklahoma high schoolers this year are donning the blue corduroy FFA jacket. -
The EATS Act is a bill designed to prevent states and local governments from regulating the production and distribution of food products within their borders that are subject to interstate commerce. -
Several people, including a member of the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, are facing criminal charges relating to illegal cockfighting. -
Almost half of Oklahoma's rural hospitals are at risk of shutting down, according to a new report from a national health policy group. -
Oklahoma’s only historically Black university will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen its agricultural sciences programs. -
If you happen to come across a dead butterfly or moth these next few months, the U.S. Geological Survey wants it.
