{"id":593,"date":"2012-05-30T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/30\/mayex-course-featured-on-iowa-tv\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:36:03","slug":"mayex-course-featured-on-iowa-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mayex-course-featured-on-iowa-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"MayEx course featured on Iowa TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whotv-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3015 lazyload\" title=\"whotv-logo\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/whotv-logo.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"194\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 212px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 212\/194;\" \/><\/a>As part of Furman\u2019s May Experience Study Away schedule, political science professor Glen Halva-Neubauer took a group of students to Iowa to study agriculture history and policy, food security, commodity vs. sustainable farming, and environmental issues.\u00a0 WHO-TV in Des Moines reported on the group\u2019s activities, interviewing Halva-Neubauer and students Emily Barksdale and Sam Burgess.<\/p>\n<p>According to the course description, \u201cfew Americans know how the food they consume is produced, and even fewer are knowledgeable about the array of policies that affects U.S. agricultural policy or the current controversies in agricultural policy.\u00a0 Students will work and live together on a farm in North Central Iowa.\u00a0 Their studies and experiences will center on agriculture history and policy, food security, commodity v. sustainable farming, and environmental issues. Students will visit a variety of farms, speak with farmers, and hear presentations by experts who represent a diverse set of perspectives on farming and farm policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2012\/05\/30\/afternoon-agribusiness-53012\/\">Watch the video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information about May Experience, visit the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.furman.edu\/academics\/mayx\/Pages\/default.aspx\">website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Furman\u2019s May Experience Study Away schedule, political science professor Glen Halva-Neubauer took a group of students to Iowa to study agriculture history and policy, food security, commodity vs. sustainable farming, and environmental issues.\u00a0 WHO-TV in Des Moines reported on the group\u2019s activities, interviewing Halva-Neubauer and students Emily Barksdale and Sam Burgess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,37,6,54,35,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-may-experience","category-parent-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-study-away-and-international-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}