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HARVEST'S MISSION:   Global demand for food and fuel is rising, and the push and pull for resources has serious ramifications for our country’s economic recovery and prosperity. Today’s emerging agenda for agriculture is headlined by energy and climate change, food safety, biofuels, animal production and welfare, human health, water quality, and local food systems. By examining these local, regional and national issues and their implications, Harvest Public Media seeks to create a rich multimedia resource devoted to food, fuel and field.

HOW WE REPORT:  Most Harvest Public Media stories begin with radio — regular reports are aired on our six member stations in the Midwest. But Harvest also explores issues through online analyses, television reports, podcasts, photography, video, blogs and social networking.  

FUNDING:  Harvest Public Media is one of seven Local Journalism Centers nationwide created with the support of a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  The initiative is intended to strengthen collaboration among six Midwest public broadcasting stations. Additional editorial support comes from American Public Media, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harvest Public Media is one of seven Local Journalism Centers nationwide created with the support of a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  The initiative is intended to strengthen collaboration among six Midwest public broadcasting stations. The partner stations are:

 

Since its Oct. 21, 1957 debut, KCUR 89.3 FM has informed, entertained and enriched a broad audience in the Kansas City area. A service of the University of Missouri— Kansas City, KCUR broadcasts around the clock and provides 20 hours of news each weekday. More than 150,000 people listen to KCUR each month, with broadcasts covering a 90-mile radius in northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas.Approximately 55 percent of the audience is in Missouri, 45 percent in Kansas.

KBIA 91.3 FM is a University of Missouri-licensed station that has been a National Public Radio member since joining the mid-Missouri airwaves on May 1, 1972.KBIA has a repeater station, KKTR, at 89.7 FM, broadcasting from the campus of Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., and covering all of Kirksville and most of Adair County. The primary signal radius of KBIA is about 60 miles; KBIA’s digital-only side channels are available in a somewhat more concentrated area.

Licensed to the University of Kansas, KANU (now Kansas Public Radio) began broadcasting on Sept. 15, 1952 with the charge to “play good music.”  In 1952, that meant classical music and jazz on long-playing records. In its early years, the station also was used as “educational radio” for shows such as The Jayhawk School of the Air. KANU was a charter member of the new National Public Radio system in 1971, carrying the signature newsmagazine All Things Considered from the beginning.  Today, Kansas Public Radio has translator stations in Atchison, Emporia and Junction City, allowing broadcasting to almost all of northeast and east-central Kansas, the Kansas City metro area and northwest Missouri.

Iowa Public Radio informs, enriches and engages Iowans through radio programming and other media. The Board of Regents of the State of Iowa established Iowa Public Radio to oversee public radio operations at the state’s three Regents' universities at the end of 2004. Iowa Public Radio includes WOI AM and FM at Iowa State University, WSUI-AM and KSUI-FM at the University of Iowa, and KUNI-FM and KHKE-FM at the University of Northern Iowa. 

NET provides public radio and television services across Nebraska. An award winning team of multi-media producers creates a variety of content in the areas of news, sports, history, science, arts and culture. In addition to radio and television broadcasting, NET provides multiple on-line services including live streaming of the Nebraska Unicameral and podcasts of locally produced programs. NET has been a pioneer in the development of innovative communication and educational technologies including the operation of a multi-channel digital transmit and receive system and production of instructional materials on tape, CD, DVD and online.

High Plains Public Radio was founded in 1977 to enrich the educational, cultural, and community life of the High Plains region of western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. It is also dedicated to developing the self-identity of the High Plains so that the region might better appreciate its common heritage and build a sustainable future. It pursues this mission through public radio broadcasting because the medium is economical and accessible to nearly everyone.