Tag Archives: farming

Editorial: Farming conservation efforts falling short

Pleading innocence and issuing PR releases about all the “progress” being made toward eliminating sediment erosion and toxic runoff is one thing. But actually doling that and more is the subject of this editorial from Iowa.

How will farmers of Northeastern N.Y. adapt to changed climate?

That’s the central question posed in this piece from North Country Public Radio in the Adirondacks region of New York.

CRP in Nebraska in trouble; wildlife to take it on chin

This is a big disappointment. Economics again triumphs over doing the right thing. Sad.

The Vermont call: An open, green landscape

I fell in love with Vermont while honeymooning there in the fall of 1979. My love for the Green Mountain State has only grown since. I was especially thrilled — as was Monica, I know — when the Air Force sent me to Plattsburgh Air Force Base, just across Lake Champlain from Burlington, VT, in 1986.

This nice essay about Vermont appeared in today’s edition of the Burlington Free-Press.

Lawsuit filed against wildlife refuge farming

As a long-time visitor to Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware, I know only too well just how much land there is devoted to growing crops, ostensibly to serve as wildlife (goose) food. Here’s news of a lawsuit filed to curtail the farming. An upcoming precedent?

Better not even talk. EPA might be listening

http://www.supportiowasfarmers.org/fullarticle.aspx?artid=3004