DREIESSEN: Exploding the myths behind biofuels
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View ArticleEditorial: Time to rethink ethanol
THE ISSUE: Congress is weighing pulling back subsidies for corn-based ethanol. THE STAKES: Before conservation lands are irreparably decimated and waters left undrinkable, this alternative fuel needs...
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 ArticleHoeven Holds Roundtable with Western North Dakota Livestock, Ag Groups on...
(Source: John Hoeven) HETTINGER, N.D. - Senator John Hoeven, a member of the House-Senate farm bill conference committee, today convened a meeting of livestock producers and western North Dakota...
View ArticlePheasant decline spurs habitat summit in South Dakota
| A recent decline in the population of ring-necked pheasants in South Dakota prompted the Governor's 2013 Habitat Summit. I was in South Dakota for a pheasant hunt this week and made the trek to the...
View ArticleFeral cats pose threat to Black Hills birds, lions
Feral cats roaming Black Hills communities present more than just a question of how to reduce their numbers humanely. The wild cats have long-reaching consequences for native species large and small....
View ArticleKansas prairie chickens arrive on schedule for hunters in the Blue Hills of...
TIPTON, Kan. — TIPTON, Kan. _ When Keith Houghton says that you can set your watch on the prairie chickens' arrival to the cropfields he hunts in the Kansas Blue Hills, he isn't exaggerating. "Lately,...
View ArticleNebraska Commodity Leaders Join to Urge Farmers to Submit Comment on EPA...
(Source: Nebraska Corn Board) Nebraska Commodity Leaders Join to Urge Farmers to Submit Comment on EPA Ethanol-Reduction Proposal Posted: Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 at 7:53 AM An Unwarranted...
View ArticleLesser Prairie Chicken Rule Inadequate to Save Charismatic Grassland Birds...
(Source: Center for Biological Diversity) For Immediate Release, December 10, 2013 Contact: Jay Lininger, (928) 853-9929, jlininger@biologicaldiversity.org Lesser Prairie Chicken Rule Inadequate to...
View ArticleRequirements for Blaze/hunter or fluorescent orange
Alabama : All persons hunting any wildlife species (except turkey and migratory birds (including crows) and while hunting legally designated species during legal nighttime hours) during dates and in...
View ArticleScramble for cash as farm subsidies pot shrinks
The battle over the face of the countryside is entering its final phase in England and Wales. The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson will announce in the next few weeks how he will divide subsidies...
View ArticleFeral cats pose threat to Black Hills birds, lions
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Feral cats roaming Black Hills communities present more than just a question of how to reduce their numbers humanely. The wild cats have long-reaching consequences for native...
View ArticleSaving The Native Prairie — One Black-Footed Ferret At A Time
American pioneers saw the endless stretches of grassland of the Great Plains as a place to produce grain and beef for a growing country. But one casualty was the native prairie ecosystem and animals...
View ArticleWill Elliott: Workshop unearths healthy soil tips
The plow has been a universal symbol of farming since early Biblical times. Mankind has sought ways to loosen soils so that seeds can find growing spaces in the ground to produce an abundance of...
View ArticleEthanol – Is the End in Sight
Dina Cappiello, an Associated Press reporter, filed an article titled, “Ethanol’s Impact – The Secret, Dirty Cost of Obama’s Green Power Push.” The Des Moines Register published the story on November...
View ArticleFarm Bureau: Ethanol proposal should be scrapped
The president of Indiana Farm Bureau wants the state's farmers to urge the federal government to scrap a proposal to...
View Article>Farm Bureau: Ethanol proposal should be scrapped
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The president of Indiana Farm Bureau wants the state's farmers to urge the federal government to scrap...
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 ArticleSaving The Native Prairie — One Black-Footed Ferret At A Time
American pioneers saw the endless stretches of grassland of the Great Plains as a place to produce grain and beef for a growing country. But one casualty was the native prairie ecosystem and animals...
View ArticleAs corn boom collapses, farmers fear a bust
Din Tai Fung, a restaurant in Shanghai’s Xintiandi district, is famous for its steamed pork dumplings. The pigs that keep those dumplings on the table are fattened with corn – much of it imported from...
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