Category Archives: Agriculture

US rejects EU claim of insecticide as prime reason for bee colony collapse

Posted on May 6, 2013 by admin

Government study points to a combination of factors for decline in population, breaking away from singling out pesticides Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent Thursday 2 May 2013     Researchers said it was not clear whether a certain class of … Continue reading →

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Kentucky to develop water pollution plan to curb ‘dead zone’

Posted on April 25, 2013 by admin

Apr. 19, 2013   |       MSD is expanding capacity of its Floyds Fork treatment plant, improving its ability to remove nutrients from wastewater. MSD officials will be giving a multi-state and federal task force a tour of the construction … Continue reading →

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Is Anyone Paying Attention? We’ve Lost 9.7 Million Acres of CRP Land in Five Years

Posted on March 14, 2013 by admin

By K. McDonald on March 7th, 2013     SWCS Conservation NewsBriefs The amount of land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), at 27.1 million acres, is down by 26 percent, or 9.7 million acres in the past five years, to … Continue reading →

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Biofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust Bowl Rates

Posted on March 1, 2013 by admin

By Joe Hitchon WASHINGTON, Feb 23 2013 (IPS) – The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States’ prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – … Continue reading →

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Could the Farm Bill Devastate America’s Birds?

Posted on December 11, 2012 by admin

By JIM LYONS, MARK REY and ERIC WASHBURN Published: December 10, 2012 Washington STRETCHING across the Upper Midwest is a 276,000-square-mile expanse full of wetlands and grasslands. This vast area — known as the prairie pothole region and extending from … Continue reading →

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