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Business Beat
2:13 pm
Wed April 25, 2012

Business Beat: Columbia's major export to world power is scrap

Credit Eva Dou / KBIA
A pile of copper wire at Fusselman Salvage. Copper is the top type of scrap that Missouri exports in dollar value

This week: Columbia’s biggest export to China isn’t corn, soybeans, or any manufactured product.  It’s scrap metal.  In fact trade experts are calling Columbia’s export “waste and scrap.” Plus, find out how one farmer is still shifting through the aftermath after losing hundreds of acres of farmland.

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Business Beat
11:00 am
Thu April 19, 2012

Trying to keep rural towns alive

Credit WenDee Rowe LaPlant / Kansas Sampler Foundation
A small group gets the discussion rolling at the Big Rural Brainstorm in Newton, Kan.

This week on the show, people in rural areas are trying to figure out how to keep youth – and jobs – in their areas. Plus, college graduates could have a better opportunity getting a job than graduates have in the past.

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Business Beat
10:56 am
Thu April 19, 2012

Trying to keep rural towns alive

Credit WenDee Rowe LaPlant / Kansas Sampler Foundation
A small group gets the discussion rolling at the Big Rural Brainstorm in Newton, Kan.

This week on the show, people in rural areas are trying to figure out how to keep youth – and jobs – in their areas. Plus, college graduates could have a better opportunity getting a job than graduates have in the past.

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Business Beat
2:15 pm
Wed April 11, 2012

Business Beat: Railroad Looking to Roll Again

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Cows at Terry Van Maanen's farm in Sioux County, Iowa, wait to be milked.

This week: Find out how one community is going back in time to move businesses forward.  Plus, what dairy farmers want more protection in the 2012 Farm Bill.

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Business Beat
4:28 pm
Fri April 6, 2012

Business Beat: Govenors Back Beef Trimmings

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Craig Letch, director of food quality and assurance for Beef Products Inc., left, introduces the beef product known as pink slime or lean finely textured beef, and the cuts from which it is made to.

This week: U.S. farmers made over 98 billion dollars last year, and consumers are upset about "lean beef trimmings," but governors are trying to diffuse the situation.

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Business Beat
2:55 pm
Fri April 6, 2012

Business Beat: Risk of Pathogen Release from N-BAF Very Low

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Walnut farmer Russ Lester is concerned about the effects climate change could bring to his California farm.

This week: Another update in the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, and climate changes doesn't ease troubles for farmers. 

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Business Beat
5:21 pm
Wed February 29, 2012

Business Beat: February 29, 2012

Credit Laura Ziegler / Harvest Public Media
Some worry that the proposed NBAF site at Kansas State University puts students at risk.

This week: NBAF opponents are gaining strength in their fight against the Disease Laboratory.  Plus, the American Soybean Association is looking for fewer restrictions from the European Union on genetically modified soybeans.

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Business Beat
2:21 pm
Wed February 15, 2012

Business Beat: February 15, 2012

Credit Courtesy Department of Homeland Security
An architectural rendering of the proposed NBAF lab in Manhattan, Kan.

This week: State representatives agree Missouri needs to find better ways to get more jobs in Missouri. Plus, how a disease laboratory in Kansas has citizens worried.

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Business Beat
5:32 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

Business Beat: February 8, 2012

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Iowa farmer Larry Stolte can store about 60 percent of his crop harvest, and is adding another 75,000 bushel grain bin this summer.

This week: Farmers buying up grain bins to help play the market. Plus, how refineries in Kansas and Iowa could help find another source of bio fuel.

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Business
1:41 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

A new source of biomass

Credit Eric Durban / Harvest Public Media
Corn stalks, leaves and cobs like these at the Kansas State Southwest Research and Extension Center in Garden City, Kan., can be harvested as biomass.

Corn has been the engine behind the ethanol industry for years, and that food vs. fuel debate doesn't look to end anytime soon.  But as researchers work to unlock the biofuels potential in crop residue and other biomass, a refinery is being built in Kansas may help take the industry to another level.

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