June 2009 Show Archives
Week 1 Show 0923
Food 4 Kids (View Video)
Food 4 Kids is a program designed to meet the needs of hungry children in metro-area schools. See how the Oklahoma Regional Food Bank is teaming up w/local retailers to help supply backpacks of food to hungry children each weekend during the school year.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Regional Food Bank
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Interview with Kim Rebek and Jeff Lowenfels--Plant a Row for the Hungry (View Video)
It's estimated the demand for hunger assistance could increase by 70% this year. We visit with Kim Rebek, host of Oklahoma Gardening, about how more Americans are planting their own gardens and also planting gardens to help feed the hungry.
For more information visit these links:Plant a Row for the Hungry
Oklahoma Gardening
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OK Grown (View Video)
You don't need to be a gardener to enjoy fresh from the garden goodness. In the past three years, the number of farmers' markets that only sell Oklahoma grown produce has doubled to 54…all with one thing in common, you know who is growing your food.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Farmers' Market Alliance
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Interview with Rita Scott and Doug Wallton--Buy Fresh, Buy Local (View Video)
We visit with Rita Scott and Doug Wallton about the Buy Fresh, Buy Local coalition and community gardens.
For more information visit this link:Buy Fresh, Buy Local
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Value Added 01--The New Face of Agriculture (View Video)
The Oklahoma farmers are becoming more diverse and where they're farming is diversifying as well.
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Ag in the Classroom 2009 (View Video)
Making the connection between the food we eat and the crops farmers grow is the goal of Ag in the Classroom. It's a program designed to help teachers teach students about how agriculture touches their lives.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom
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Value Added 02--Ag in the Classroom 2009 (View Video)
Making the connection between the food we eat and the crops farmers grow is the goal of Ag in the Classroom. It's a program designed to help teachers teach students about how agriculture touches their lives. See what the students have learned.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom
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Miniature Bulls (View Video)
It's said you can't judge something by it's size but maybe you can. An event called miniature bullriding is one some are calling the next "big" thing. Take a wild ride at the extreme miniature bull riding tour.
For more information visit these links:Miniature Bucking Bull World Finals
Miniature Bucking Bull Breeders of America
D Cross C Ranch
Midrange Cattle Company
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Week 2 Show 0924
2009 Wheat Crop (View Video)
Across much of W. Oklahoma, the economic health of many small towns gets diagnosed each June when the combines start rolling for the wheat harvest. But this year, Mother Nature wasn't kind and farmers are facing the smallest harvest in half a century.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Wheat Commission
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Poultry Litter (View Video)
A solution to the challenge of how to meet the demand for food while preserving the land around it.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma's Poultry Litter Transfer Program
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Wind Overview (View Video)
Our state's two largest utility providers are closing in on generating ten percent of our electricity using wind power and Oklahoma has the potential to do a lot more.
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Interview with Kylah McNabb--Wind (View Video)
We visit with the Department of Commerce's Kylah McNabb about the future of Oklahoma's wind industry.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Wind Commerce 2009
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Week 3 Show 0925
African Mushroom Farmers (View Video)
We meet an Oklahoma couple who believe growing more mushrooms in Africa could help alleviate malnutrition and poverty there.
For more information visit these links:Lost Creek Mushroom Farm
Opportunities Industrialization Centers International
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Micro Credit (View Video)
Meet a successful Oklahoman who is making it a part of his life's work to help other fellow entrepreneurs help themselves.
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Interview with Terry Neese--Peace Through Business (View Video)
We visit with Terry Neese of the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women about how they are helping women in the developing world.
For more information visit this link:Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women
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Value Added 03--Afghan Business Women (View Video)
The Peace Through Business initiative is a national effort to help bring peace to the Middle East by equipping Afghanistan women with entrepreneurial skills. An idea born right here in Oklahoma.
For more information visit this link:Peace Through Business
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Farm Subsidies (View Video)
While just a fraction of the total cost of the farm bill, farm subsidies, those direct payments and price supports for farmers, are what generate all the controversy.
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International Students Impact for the World (View Video)
Living in an under-developed country is difficult especially when there is little hope to change things. Meet one graduate student who is taking steps to make a difference in his home village in Kenya by educating himself abroad.
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Week 4 Show 0926
Cuba (View Video)
There's hope that a new administration in Washington will reverse a 50-year-old Cuba trade policy that a growing number of people in both the U.S. and Cuba see as a relic of the cold war.
For more information visit these links:Plains Grains, Inc.
Oklahoma Wheat Commission
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Interview with Don Armes and Charles Wyrick--Trade with Cuba (View Video)
We visit with a group, recently returned from Cuba, who are working to open markets between Cuba and Oklahoma's agriculture industry which benefits the most from expanded trade with Cuba.
For more information visit these links:Plains Grains, Inc.
Oklahoma Wheat Commission
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Get Healthy OCU (View Video)
Some experts believe that if obesity in kids continues to increase at the current rate, today's children could become the first in American history to live shorter lives than their parents.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Christian University
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School Greenhouse (View Video)
Getting their daily serving of fruit and veggies will be a little easier this fall for students at a Tulsa elementary school.
For more information visit these links:National Gardening Associatoin
Tulsa Public Schools
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Food Coop (View Video)
An Oklahoma organization is getting back to the basics to advance what they believe is the future of food.
For more information visit these links:Oklahoma Food Cooperative
The Kerr Center
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Mo'Betta (View Video)
There was a time in the 1990's that country bars were a bright and colorful place and not just because of the characters inside but by the shirts that they wore.
For more information visit this link:Mo'Betta Clothing Company
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