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# 519
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/americas-heartland/episode/americas-heartland-519/
- Published: 2024-05-08T14:07:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T08:50:50.000Z
- Description: Explore farming research and meet the America's Heartland songwriter and young vintners.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: America's Heartland, Season 5, Episode 19, #ZZZ_Episode_e27cbf02-7508-4f2e-98f6-01b9878394a5, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_e2dd9911-ad05-4ab5-aadb-338e5c6e1486, #v1.16

Akiba Howard meets Michael Martin Murphey, the author of the America's Heartland title song. Jason Shoultz discovers how research in Georgia is addressing water shortages. Rob Stewart takes us to Alabama to see how research at the world's oldest cotton research plot helps farmers. John Lobertini visits a young Missouri couple who left city life behind to start a new life in making wine.