Episode 313   addthis

Pat McConahay visits North Dakota where a special kind of wheat plays a major role in the state's economy. Pasta producers in North Dakota look to farmers for new products and new markets. Farmers from all across the heartland gather in Utah for the national Farm Bureau convention. Call it an "agricultural education": students attend a "farm school" in New York state.

 


Going for Grain Going for Grain
Because in North Dakota, wheat growers harvest some 300-million bushels each and every year. And in a state that with fewer people than the city of Indianapolis, that’s close to five hundred bushels for every man, woman and child.

 

  

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Gourmet Grain Gourmet Grain
Farmers in the durum wheat growing area of North Dakota don’t just load their grain into the local elevator and ship it off to Timbuktu to be processed into your favorite brand of macaroni. There are plenty of experts close to the durum wheat fields.

 

Farm Camping Farm Camping
Like many areas of the U.S., people living in larger cities like Buffalo and Rochester have lost their connection with agriculture. The Springdale Farm educates non-farming folks about agriculture and also provides rehabilitation for folks with developmental disabilities.



Exchanging Ideas Exchanging Ideas
The temperature hovers just above freezing in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. While the heartland’s fields are frozen for the winter, More than 4-thousand farmers and ranchers from across the United States gather for the annual American Farm Bureau Convention!

 

Heartland Hauntings?Heartland Hauntings?
A lot of times you see something from the corner of your eye, and you think, oh what was that?  Marie Lorge is talking about ghostly figures. Marie and her husband run a popular watering hole in Amidon, North Dakota.

 



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