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Macy Byars

Reporter · US

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  1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Macy Byars

    This USDA lab has studied threats to food and farms for decades. Now its scientists must relocate (opens the original)

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    Earlier this summer, Manan Sharma received an email with some unwelcome news: to keep his job, he'd have to move across the country in a matter of months. Sharma worked as a food microbiologist for more than two decades at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, a federal facility just outside Washington, D.C. “You can't easily replace what BARC is or represents,” Sharma said. His research unit studied how pathogens that cause foodborne illness enter produce through soil and wat

  2. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Macy Byars

    This USDA lab has studied threats to food and farms for decades. Now its scientists must relocate (opens the original)

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    Earlier this summer, Manan Sharma received an email with some unwelcome news: to keep his job, he'd have to move across the country in a matter of months. Sharma worked as a food microbiologist for more than two decades at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, a federal facility just outside Washington, D.C. “You can't easily replace what BARC is or represents,” Sharma said. His research unit studied how pathogens that cause foodborne illness enter produce through soil and wat

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · By Macy Byars, Reporter Nebraska Public Media News

    Here's how Nebraska State Fair vets keep more than 10,000 livestock entries safe (opens the original)

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    It’s Raylyn Stratton’s first time showing cattle at the Nebraska State Fair. The 14-year-old livestock exhibitor from Valparaiso brought Sugar and Sage for the Junior Breeding Heifer competition on Wednesday. “I usually rinse them about twice a day, or try to, and then wash them probably about three times a week, so you can keep their hair nice and good and so they don't have dandruff,” Raylyn said. These well-groomed heifers had to be checked by a veterinarian on their way into the fairgrounds.

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · By Macy Byars, Reporter Nebraska Public Media News

    Money, power take center stage during Ricketts and Osborn’s State Fair debate (opens the original)

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    Nebraska’s U.S. Senate candidates met up at the Nebraska State Fair for a debate Tuesday night. A panel of Nebraska reporters asked incumbent Republican Pete Ricketts and Independent Dan Osborn questions as about 200 attendees crowded into the BigIron Event Center for the hourlong sparring match. The event was hosted and streamed live by News Channel Nebraska. Reporters from the Nebraska Examiner, Flatwater Free Press and the Omaha World-Herald served as the panelists. The candidates wasted no t

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · By Macy Byars, Reporter Nebraska Public Media News

    Cattle producers meet with Pillen, USDA secretary to discuss beef prices (opens the original)

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    Gov. Jim Pillen, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Nebraska cattle producers met Monday afternoon to discuss new federal initiatives to support ranchers. The USDA announced the “Ranchers First Initiative” Monday morning, which includes five new actions and programs to support American ranchers and beef production. “We hear this over and over that if we lose more ranches, if this trend continues, then we will lose freedom in this country. Where there is beef, there is freedom. If w

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