Past Articles by Peggy Lowe
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In Missouri, Days Of Drought Send Caretakers To One 'Big Tree' Before the American Revolution, a huge tree has been standing in central Missouri, growing to 90 feet tall. The beloved bur oak, which everybody calls "The Big Tree," has survived all kinds of punishments during 350 years on the prairie. But last year's record drought was rough on the tree, causing it to wilt and alarming two locals who nursed it back to health. |
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In Missouri, Days Of Drought Send Caretakers To One 'Big Tree' Before the American Revolution, a huge tree has been standing in central Missouri, growing to 90 feet tall. The beloved bur oak, which everybody calls "The Big Tree," has survived all kinds of punishments during 350 years on the prairie. But last year's record drought was rough on the tree, causing it to wilt and alarming two locals who nursed it back to health. |
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Farmers And Their Cooperative Settle Lawsuit On Fixing The Price Of Milk Farmers in the Southeast had accused their own food cooperative, the Dairy Farmers of America, of striking a deal that created a milk monopoly and suppressed the price paid for raw milk. In settling the case, the cooperative said it did nothing wrong. |
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Farmers And Their Cooperative Settle Lawsuit On Fixing The Price Of Milk Farmers in the Southeast had accused their own food cooperative, the Dairy Farmers of America, of striking a deal that created a milk monopoly and suppressed the price paid for raw milk. In settling the case, the cooperative said it did nothing wrong. |
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All Eyes Are On The Fiscal Cliff, But The Dairy Cliff Is Important Too As few people were paying attention to the stalled Farm Bill, a deadline snuck up that could double the price of milk. If the Farm Bill expires on Jan. 1, an antiquated law would kick in that requires the government to buy milk at inflated prices. The average cost of a gallon of milk is now $3.65, but could reach $6 to $8 if Congress fails to make this fix. Peggy Lowe of Harvest Public Media reports. |
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Unlike Chicken And Pork, Beef Still Begins With Small Family Ranches The beef industry is shaped like a bottle: It starts at the bottom with 750,000 small ranches and ends with just four meatpacking plants processing about 82 percent of the beef we eat. |
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How One Hospital Entices Doctors To Work In Rural America Instead of offering big salaries and other perks, the CEO of tiny Ashland Health Clinic, in southwest Kansas, lures physicians with "a job that matters." In addition to meeting a real need on a daily basis in Ashland, doctors also get eight weeks off to do missionary work overseas. |
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Feds Want To Make Farming Safer For Kids The Labor Department has proposed changes that would outlaw farm kids under the age of 16 from driving tractors, branding cattle and handling pesticides. Family farmers are angry about the proposal and accuse the government of encroaching on a sacred part of country life. But statics show kids who work on farms are six times more likely to be killed than children working in other industries. Peggy Lowe of Harvest Public Media reports. |
