Amy Mayer
ReporterAmy Mayer is a reporter based in Ames. She covers agriculture and is part of the Harvest Public Media collaboration. Before joining IPR in 2012, Amy worked as an independent producer for many years and also previously had stints at WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts and KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Amy’s work has earned awards from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association, Iowa Broadcast News Association, RTDNA, SPJ, the Alaska Press Club and the Massachusetts/Rhode Island AP. You can contact Amy at amayer@iowapublicradio.org.
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Iowa businesses encourage supporting local retailers on Small Business Saturday. -
Farmers need technology, but the challenges of climate change are greater than what innovation is likely to overcome. -
Iowans returned their junior senator, Republican Joni Ernst, to Washington for a second term. -
While Iowa's egg farms faced immediate disruptions when restaurants and schools closed in the spring, the turkey sector continued production mostly as usual until August. -
Exports are buoying the U.S. pork sector. -
A farmer in North Iowa has created a mobile barn that lets him raise four livestock species in pasture sections interspersed with crops. -
Iowa's state climatologist says extreme weather events will continue and become even more extreme. -
Farmers harvesting derecho-damaged corn are seeing vast differences in yield. -
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture traveled to Iowa to celebrate a new program that awards grants so retailers can sell higher blends of biofuels. -
The 10th Iowa Climate Statement attracted 230 signers from 37 colleges and universities across the state.
