Falling in love with sharpies
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. _ More than a dozen sharp-tailed grouse glided across the frozen landscape, riding a frigid northwest wind beneath a dirt-gray sky that spit snow and...
View ArticleLocal View: Time To Ensure The Farm Bill’s Conservation Legacy (WWF - World...
(Source: WWF - World Wildlife Fund USA) Some of the scars are 100 years old. Piled up in corners or along fence lines, these unsuspecting stacks of boulders tell a story that's unfolded before -- a...
View ArticlePheasant numbers fall in northeast Kansas
Jordan Martincich has watched the pheasants' world shrink in northeast Kansas. He remembers the days when he was learning to hunt, and places such as Marshall and Nemaha counties were the perfect...
View ArticlePrairies vanish in the US push for green energy
EDITOR'S NOTE _ This is part of an Associated Press investigation into the hidden costs of green energy. %byline(By CHET BROKAW and JACK GILLUM%) %bytitle(Associated Press%)...
View ArticleChevron And ALEC Take On The Big, Bad Lesser Prairie Chicken
WASHINGTON –- The American Legislative Exchange Council and Chevron are teaming up to spread awareness of what they say is a serious threat to energy development in the U.S.: the lesser prairie...
View ArticleRecent editorials published in Iowa newspapers
Quad-City Times. Nov. 30, 2013. Iowa reports record year in the liquor business By any business measure, Iowa's government-run liquor wholesaling business is a phenomenal success. New figures released...
View ArticleRPT-Ethanol cut may drive down U.S. corn prices, drive up subsidies
* Lower ethanol mandate adds to low-price, corn subsidy brew * After record high, era of lower corn price is forecast * Large subsidies if farm-gate price falls to $4 a bushel By Charles Abbott...
View ArticleEthanol cut may drive down U.S. corn prices, drive up subsidies
* Lower ethanol mandate adds to low-price, corn subsidy brew * After record high, era of lower corn price is forecast * Large subsidies if farm-gate price falls to $4 a bushel By Charles Abbott...
View ArticleBLM to determine sage grouse habitat protection
Sage grouse are an iconic bird in the west – the name alone evokes image of wild prairies and snowcapped mountains in the distance. And their mating dance is one of the most unique in the animal...
View ArticleLetter about ethanol plays with words and statistics
I am writing in response to the letter Nov. 16 from Philip Nelson, president of the Illinois Farm Bureau, extolling the virtues of ethanol and condemning the Associated Press methodology in an article...
View ArticleDecember 20 Application Deadline Set for Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program
DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California's farmers and ranchers interested in participating in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Wildlife Habitat...
View ArticleEthanol-maker offered $6.3M in incentives for new plant
RALEIGH — A long-anticipated $200 million ethanol plant that will turn grasses grown on North Carolina hog farms into motor fuel will go ahead, Gov. Pat McCrory’s office said Monday. The plant operated...
View ArticleBiofuel industry renews push to make ethanol from plant waste
KANSAS CITY, Mo -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. - It's showtime for cellulosic ethanol. After false starts and outright failures, some major companies are betting there's still a future in making ethanol out of...
View ArticleStory about ethanol was inaccurate
On Nov. 12, the Post-Dispatch ran an Associated Press article online about the negative effects of ethanol ("The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push"). Unfortunately, the article misses the...
View ArticleHabitat spat
Impending sage-grouse protections bring conservation, drilling interests to the fore The regionally unique, distinctively marked greater sage-grouse is at the center of a bubbling current public...
View ArticleSurging doubt about ethanol
A farmer in Illinois dump harvestesd corn into a truck earlier this month. (Jim Suhr, The Associated Press) It is becoming increasingly clear that the corn ethanol skeptics were right. What began as a...
View ArticleFarmers Head to Washington, D.C., to Defend Ethanol at EPA Hearing (NCGA -...
(Source: NCGA - National Corn Growers Association) New s Rel ea s e FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Melissa George Kessler (202) 903-9638 kessler@ncga.com Farmers Head to...
View ArticleOwen Paterson speech to Policy Exchange (DEFRA - UK Department for the...
(Source: DEFRA - UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) In a major speech to Policy Exchange on Wednesday 20 November, Owen Paterson set out the government's determination to have...
View ArticlePerennial energy crops could provide environmental benefits (University of...
(Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison) Nov. 26, 2013 Agricultural buffers, like the one placed adjacent to Black Earth Creek on a farm in western Dane County, could filter runoff, sequester...
View ArticleChattenden Woods and Lodge Hill SSSI confirmed by Natural England (Natural...
(Source: Natural England) 19 November 2013 Natural England today confirmed Lodge Hill in Kent as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its nightingale population, special grassland and...
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