Madelyn Beck
Madelyn Beck is a regional Illinois reporter, based in Galesburg. On top of her work for Harvest Public Media, she also contributes to WVIK, Tri-States Public Radio and the Illinois Newsroom collaborative. Beck is from a small cow ranch in Manhattan, Montana. Her previous work was mostly based in the western U.S., but she has covered agriculture, environment and health issues from Alaska to Washington, D.C. Before joining Harvest and the Illinois Newsroom, she was as an energy reporter based in Wyoming for the public radio collaborative Inside Energy. Other publications include the Idaho Mountain Express, E&E News/EnergyWire, KRBD Rainbird Radio, the Montana Broadcasters Association, Montana Public Radio and the Tioga Tribune.
-
There could soon be a different kind of fuel going into trucks and planes, one that could help farmers and create rural jobs. It’d come from sorghum: a...
-
The Senate took a crucial step Thursday to making sure that, among other things, the hungry are fed, farmers have crop price protections and land is...
-
Two counties in southwestern Illinois grow the majority of the nation’s — possibly the world’s — horseradish. The city of Collinsville, population 25...
-
There’s a new strategy when it comes to combating the smells and air quality concerns that arise from large-scale animal feeding operations: Blame the...
-
New research suggests that no-till farming could help mitigate climate change.
-
It’s a challenge for people with severe mental illnesses to hold down a job or get the medical help they need. And that extends to when they try to...
-
Held up over disagreements over federal food stamps, the first draft of the 2018 farm bill arrived Thursday, bearing 35 changes to that program, including…
-
Meant to fund the federal government through early September, the $1.3 trillion bill signed by President Donald Trump last week also includes money and...
-
U.S. consumers’ hunger for fresh, local and organic foods has fed a marketplace that’s so big, little guys are — once again — having to evolve and...
-
Western Illinois might be close to the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, but it’s the driest part of the state this year. “We really haven’t really had...