Dana Cronin

Dana Cronin is a reporter based in Urbana, Illinois. She covers food and agriculture issues in Illinois for Harvest. Dana started reporting in southern Colorado at member station 91.5 KRCC, where she spent three years writing about everything from agriculture to Colorado’s highest mountain peaks. From there she went to work at her hometown station, KQED, in San Francisco. While there she covered the 2017 North Bay Fires. She spent the last two years at NPR’s headquarters in Washington D.C., producing for shows including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered.

It’s Been Six Years Since Illinois Set Out To Improve Water Quality. So Far, Farm Runoff Is Worse

By • Apr 21, 2021

When it rains on Joe Rothermel’s central Illinois farm, most of the water drains into the nearby East Branch Embarras River. There, it begins a journey south through the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Farm Tools Were Designed For Men. That’s A Problem For The Increasing Number Of Female Farmers.

By • Nov 11, 2020

 

Dusty Spurgeon is proud to be a female farmer. 

For One Food Insecure Family, The Pandemic Leaves Them With 'No Wiggle Room'

By • Oct 5, 2020

 

Ja Nelle Pleasure never used to think twice about putting food on the table for her family.

Farmers Lose Out As Thieves Mistake Hemp for Marijuana

By • Mar 18, 2020

For many farmers, 2019 was the first year of growing hemp, since it became legal under the 2018 Farm Bill. In addition to the normal challenges of farming, hemp growers have had to deal with a different kind of problem: theft.