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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FOX’s “Farmer Wants a Wife” recently wrapped up its first season, and it got Harvest Public Media wondering what dating is like for farmers and ranchers. Turns out, dating in a small town isn’t always easy.
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Guthrie city officials announced its municipal pool at Highland Park will stay closed for the summer due to the effects of the ongoing drought and low lake levels.
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House Bill 1962 allows 14 year-olds who live or work on a farm to apply for a Class D driver's license, but only drive under certain conditions.
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The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food, and Forestry and the American Farmers and Ranchers Cooperative gathered to honor the late farmer advocate Mona Lee Brock with a bronze sculpture and display case of mementos.
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In a collaboration of Harvest Public Media and the Kansas News Service, Nuñez and reporters David Condos and Elizabeth Rembert won best radio news series for their stories about how drought affected the Great Plains region.
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A Guymon man is accused of writing a bogus check to buy more than one hundred cows and resell them.
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The Cherokee Nation is giving one-time $600 relief payments to farmworkers and meatpackers who worked during the pandemic through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Program.
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Every five years, Congress has to renew the farm bill — a gigantic piece of legislation that supports and protects food production, natural resources and provides food benefits to low-income families.
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Last winter’s precipitation relieved some areas of drought, yet in other places it's deepened, making spring stressful for farmers and ranchers.
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The president of Oklahoma's only historically Black university will end his tenure leading the school after 11 years.