Category Archives: Environment

Copenhagen and Agriculture – Any Progress?

With great fanfare President Obama went to Copenhagen and produced nothing related to agriculture. Continue reading

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Perchlorate May be in Your Farming Future

EPA could declare a naturally occurring substance as indirect danger to human health – and Agriculture could pay the price Continue reading

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Progressive Environmentalism – The New Green is Pink?

To solve the problems of the Chesapeake Bay, we need stewardship, which can include regulation. But we don’t need the interventionist economics that comes with progressive environmentalism. Continue reading

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Get Rid of Livestock! Save The Planet!

The U.S. Humane Society of the United States recently filed a petition with the EPA to regulate air emissions being emitted from concentrated animal feeding operations. The petition claims that worldwide animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of all GHG emissions contributing to global warming! Continue reading

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Storm Water Runoff Exemption Threatened

On Nov. 16, a U. S. District Court Judge ruling in a case will force Florida to set water pollution standards to control water runoff coming from farms and running into waters of the state or the United States. Agricultural producers must wake up and understand the gravity of this case. This will be the first time EPA will be issuing standards with specific numeric limits to control runoff from not only Florida’s farms but eventually this will move to every state. Continue reading

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