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Agriculture
11:36 am
Fri August 10, 2012

My Farm Roots: "Little Miss Janice Ann Robinson and the Cow"

Credit Courtesy Jan Phillips
When Jan Phillips was a baby, her parents said they knew by her laughter in response to a cow-driven buggy ride that she would be adventurous. Seventy years later, she's still proving them right. This is her last year on a trip to Asia.

Ninety years ago this May, my grandfather, Ronald Merle Phillips, and his twin brother, Robert Earl, were born on a farm near Chetopa, Kan. His twin died of influenza before their second birthday, but my grandpa is still alive and well. To celebrate that fact, 150 family and friends gathered at the community center in Parsons, Kan. last month.

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Agriculture
1:25 pm
Fri July 27, 2012

Paying to do farm chores? It's called agritourism [slideshow]

Picking fruit, tasting wine, petting a goat, roping a cow. When customers pay for the honor of taking on such farm chores ... or delights … it’s called “agritourism.”

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Exam
5:16 pm
Mon March 12, 2012

Exam: March 12, 2012

Credit Rachel Rice / KBIA
Students at Colulmbia Independent School learn in a class that's part of the Confucius Institute program

This week on Exam, we talk with the future Principal of Battle High School in Columbia about her plans for the school, and we’ll tell you about the University of Missouri’s partnership with China.

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Education
4:45 pm
Mon March 12, 2012

Catching up with the future principal of Battle HS

Credit Camille Phillips / KBIA
Ninth grader Helen Temporal works on her mouse trap car outside her industrial tech. classroom at Oakland Junior High.

Battle High School won’t open its doors until August 2013, but the school’s future principal is already busy making plans. KBIA’s Camille Phillips recently caught up with Dr. Kim Presko at Oakland Junior High, where she has been principal for the past twelve years.

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Under the Microscope
5:06 pm
Thu January 19, 2012

Breeding new grape varieties

Credit Jennifer Moore / KSMU
Dr. Chin-Feng Hwang checks on a cluster of grapes that is a crossbreed between the disease-resistant Norton and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes.

 

This week on the show: do you know what's living in your firewood? Plus, new cultivars could change Missouri's wine industry.

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Business Beat
4:46 pm
Wed January 4, 2012

Proposed child labor changes questioned on the farm

Credit Peggy Lowe / Harvest Public Media
MacKenzie Lewis, 15, pulls weed-control plastic up from a watermelon field on Julie and Scott Wilber's farm near Boone, Iowa.

This week: Missouri could gain over two hundred thousand jobs by the 2025, and the Department of Labor proposed new regulations on kids working on the farm who are under 16.

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