Grant Gerlock
Harvest Public Media ReporterHarvest Public Media's reporter at NET News, where he started as Morning Edition host in 2008. He joined Harvest Public Media in July 2012. Grant has visited coal plants, dairy farms, horse tracks and hospitals to cover a variety of stories. Before going to Nebraska, Grant studied mass communication as a grad student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and completed his undergrad at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. He grew up on a farm in southwestern Iowa where he listened to public radio in the tractor, but has taken up city life in Lincoln, Neb.
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The USDA says it will give states more flexibility in how they deliver federal food benefits. That could potentially include requiring drug testing or imposing time limits for adults with children.
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The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted to approve a route for the pipeline, giving TransCanada the permission it needs to build. But there are still big obstacles ahead, both economic and challenges from environmentalists and landowners.
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The World Health Organization released recommendations this week to curb the use of antibiotics in livestock, saying it could help reduce the risk of...
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Burkey Farms in southeast Nebraska looked into the future a couple of years ago and didn’t like what it saw — a continuation of depressed prices for...
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Study Suggests Legal Nitrate Levels In Water Could Cause Cancer; Researcher Says It Isn’t DefinitiveA new report suggests the Environmental Protection Agency should consider lowering the legal limit in drinking water for nitrates, a chemical often...
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A new study found that staple crops like corn and wheat, which provide a large proportion of the world’s calories and U.S. farmers’ output, will likely...
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To slaughter 2 million birds per week, Costco is contracting poultry farmers. But this requires a major financial investment from small producers, and the payoff may not be guaranteed.
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A new tractor often costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, but not included in that price: the right to repair it. That has put farmers on the front…
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This story is part of the special series United And Divided, which explores the links and rifts between rural and urban America.Rural voters…
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The fruit is one of the first GMOs to be marketed directly to consumers, not at farmers. It's headed to test markets this month. And it's a sign of how the science of genetic engineering is evolving.