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Three North Dakota beef processors will receive grants from USDA’s Meat and Poultry Expansion program. -
What happens when musical creativity meets a little engineering ingenuity? Minnesota singer-songwriter Ben Ranson has developed a patented guitar with “palm frets,” allowing musicians to change bass notes using the heel of their hand while playing melodies at the same time.
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Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife
Most all North Dakotans are familiar with white-tailed deer and mule deer, but I suspect that most are not familiar the differences between the two.
Main Street
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Jeff Beach explains diesel relief for farmers; musician Ben Ranson demos a new guitar; George Peck explores election security and hacked supermarket freezers.
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Steam-powered threshers revolutionized agriculture as farmers began transitioning from horses to steam power. A crew using one of these machines could process a harvest in days rather than weeks. There was, however, a significant problem: the machines were dangerous.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
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Manish Swarup
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AP
New Delhi, home to over 30 million people, regularly ranks among the world's most polluted areas during winter, with pollution worsening in late October and November.
Elizabeth Cook
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Affordability concerns were top of mind for voters heading into the midterms, as tariffs and the war in Iran drove up prices, including food costs. Now, Americans are expecting relief from Washington. -
Visitors, ecologists, park rangers and residents all love this wild barrier island off the coast of southern Georgia. But they have different ideas of how to best protect it.
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Justin Bergh
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South Dakota Public Broadcasting
After bison were nearly driven to extinction in the late 1800s, Native nations across North America have been working to restore them to their ancestral lands.
Mary Conlon
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Wisconsin Public Radio