Jana Rose Schleis
News Producer, KBIAJana Rose Schleis is a News Producer at KBIA. She earned a master's degree at the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she studied investigative journalism and government reporting. Schleis worked for Agri-Pulse in Washington D.C. and the Cap Times in Madison, WI where she honed expertise reporting on energy, environment, agriculture and policy.
During graduate school Jana Rose Schleis reported on city, county, and state government for the Columbia Missourian and was the Morning Anchor at KBIA. Schleis was also a member of the Watchdog Writers Group and a Pulitzer Center grantee.
Previously, Schleis worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for five years as a Production Assistant, Producer of “The Morning Show,” and finally Network Producer for The Ideas Network. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, where her very first radio experience came from the community station WWSP 90FM — your only alternative.
Jana Rose Schleis is from a small Wisconsin town located on the Lake Michigan shore. She's a proud dairy farm kid who loves cheese, of course, and also live music, books and radio.
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The 100-acre tree nursery at George O. White State Forest, in Licking, Missouri, serves 13,000 customers a year — in the Show-Me State and beyond. Pawpaws are one of their most popular orders. -
Many of these programs offered incentive payments to farmers who adopt an environmentally sustainable or “climate-smart” practice. Some partnerships will be renewed and folded into a new program. -
The University of Missouri Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for white oak seedlings. The tree species is essential for wildlife and industry, but it's struggling under climate change. -
Elderberry products have long been a popular crop in Europe. But even though the American elderberry is native to Missouri and can be sustainably grown, it's taken decades of research and market development to build a customer base. -
H5N1 has not been detected in Missouri’s dairy herd, but some of the state’s poultry flock has been affected. Exhibitors bringing Cows to the Missouri State Fair need to have their milk tested before arriving. -
Gov. Mike Parson proposed a $69 million investment to convert 78 additional miles of the Rock Island corridor into trail, but his plan got cut by the Senate. Still, communities along the trail are forging ahead despite the absence of legislative support. -
The Correctional Center Nursery Program would allow women who give birth while incarcerated the chance to stay with their newborns in prison for up to 18 months. Nurseries for incarcerated mothers are shown to reduce recidivism and have long-term benefits for babies. -
As winter approaches, all levels of government are struggling to find qualified applicants to clear streets after snowfalls.
