Anna Pope
Reporter, KOSUI cover agriculture and rural affairs for KOSU and Harvest Public Media.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, I grew up listening to KOSU in the car or in my family’s farm work truck. In 2023, I joined the station as a corps member for Report For America, a GroundTruth initiative placing emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country, and graduated from the program in 2025.
I earned my bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism from Oklahoma State University. After graduating, I covered the impact of population growth as an RFA corps member for KUAF in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
My work has been recognized with awards including a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for my reporting on the 2024 tornado in Sulphur, Oklahoma.
You can reach me at anna@kosu.org.
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Federal data found that millions of people struggled to get enough food in 2024. The report will be the final publication of such data after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will scrap the annual hunger survey. -
Producers across the central U.S. are facing high input costs as the trade war puts crop markets in an uncertain position. Agriculture economists say they’re watching tariffs and the cattle industry — which has boosted income for some farmers. -
The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and landowners are overseeing conservation efforts -
Federal food assistance has started to flow again after the government reopened. But the charitable food system is planning for continued need through the end of the year. -
More than a million low-income mothers and children in the Midwest and Great Plains rely on a national food assistance program. The Trump administration says it will help provide temporary funding to keep the program afloat, but food advocates say it’s a short-term fix. -
People working to address hunger say the canceled report is a main resource to understand where and how people are experiencing food insecurity across the country. -
The Trump Administration asked states to find the lowest-cost option in the latest program to build broadband infrastructure in rural areas. That opens the door for more types of technology, which some worry could be less reliable in the long-term. -
Grocery stores accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in 12 states will soon have to accommodate new exclusions to the program. Industry advocates say the changes will be expensive, especially for smaller retailers. -
President Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" shifts more Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs to states. Lawmakers and officials in support of the new measure say it will cut down on waste and fraud, but food advocates warn it could mean fewer people receiving the benefit. -
Shoppers are seeing record high beef prices at the grocery store. That’s in part because the number of cattle in the U.S. is at an all-time low, while consumer demand has remained strong.
