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America's Heartland
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Season 3
Episode 22
Scientific advances in agriculture have spared millions from starvation, and the World Food Prize is up for grabs in Des Moines, Iowa every year. Visit Vermont, home of the largest number of cheese-makers ! Michigan is where sugar beets are grown and turned into sweet products for your dinner table. Farmers in Iowa and Kansas are making a tidy profit by welcoming sportsmen onto their land.
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Best of Heartland music with Rodney Dillard, Michael Martin Murphey. Mule team brings in harvest.
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Refuge saves wild horses. Hi-tech wheat grower. Preserving the tall grass prairie in Kansas.
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Farm stays shows city kids rural life. Mushroom pasta recipe. Dairy turns cow manure into energy.
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Oregon farm raises tulips. Protecting pollinating bees. Man saves and restores old barns.
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Sweet potatoes become popular vodka. “Sassy” cows help create special cheese and ice cream.
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Cactus farm finds success. Georgia peanut harvest. “Mule Days” draws fans of the farm animal.
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“Big Apple” harvest in New York. Ohio family sells crops overseas. Tasty new carrot soup recipe.
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U.S. winter “salad bowl.” Florida farmers feed the hungry. Montana growers raise gluten-free crops.
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Rice farmer sells directly to consumers. Virginia corn grower reaps nation’s largest harvest.
