For Duck Farms, Dealing With New Limits
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A more aggressive approach by local and state agencies to remedying pollution from duck farms is the latest challenge for the local industry, which is also facing high utility, feed and land costs.
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By Jason Kolnos, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Dec. 15--ORLEANS -- Local parks officials are considering an  unprecedented solution to their piping plover predicament: Get federal and  state regulators to ease rules protecting the threatened species.
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Farmers are hoping that restrictions on the movement of livestock will soon be lifted.
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By JOHN DOBBERSTEIN World Staff Writer  Natural methods slow to catch on in Oklahoma   Stubbornness drove Sam Jorgenson into organic farming.
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With Maryland's breeding business falling on hard times, places like the Bonita Farm are forced to find other ways to make money on its land.
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A hearing to decide whether to introduce limits for cockling on the Dee Estuary gets under way.
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Ducks and geese coated in crude oil were carried to a national wildlife refuge yesterday by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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Getting to the Kent countryside from London is about contrast. You arrive to all the things you'd expect, such as quiet, big skies, stars that are visible at night, snowdrops in bloom and peace. However, not all is calm in my little country corner. This weekend I arrive to find that a neighbouring farmer has, without permission, placed about 500 sheep in my field to graze. The field was being left empty for Farmer B, and Farmer A, with the ruthlessness you'd more likely expect in a FTSE 100 boardroom, let his sheep into my field to feed on the lush green turf that has been accumulating.
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PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa  - Gordon Wassenaar has his eye on a $300,000 combine harvester to replace the 1990 model he repairs each winter in the workshop on his farm. And he just bought more land to add to his 1,600-acre spread.
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Wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold all are potential obstacles to plans to track livestock and protect the food supply from disease and bioterrorism.
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 14--Developers might get a free pass from affordable-housing rules in the pricey new neighborhoods spreading across Palm Beach County's Agricultural Reserve.
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Colorado is considering letting prison inmates work on private farms after farmers complained that an illegal-immigration crackdown has left them short-handed, officials said.
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By KIDSON, Sally; FAIRFAX  By Sally Kidson and NZPA   Dairy farmers in Tasman district have shown a "huge improvement'' in meeting their resource consent conditions.
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Squishy federal guidelines on what makes a farm "organic" has got advocates like Mark Kastel demanding stricter standards  -  and forcing big producers to comply
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A federal judge imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps he says were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.
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You may be surprised to learn that your tax dollars have helped pave the way for the growth of livestock megafarms by paying for manure management.