Agriculture vs. Environment: 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 Peter B. Lord; Journal Environment Writer  The findings serve to underline the importance of Rhode Island's efforts to save the piping plover.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 24--A large-scale hog production business in Forest River, N.D., has  received a $71,000 grant from the North Dakota Agricultural Products  Utilization Commission.
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By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN  BOISE, Idaho - More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died in a bizarre cluster along a southeastern Idaho creek bed, puzzling wildlife agencies.  The Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the U.S.
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By LARKIN, Juliet  WORM farming might be a solution for more environmentally friendly processing of dairy effluent, said a Cromwell worm farmer, who is facing growing demand for his worms.
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A family farm near the Delaware River abandoned cows for Douglas firs, but the risks of farming remain.
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By Chris Casteel, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 23--WASHINGTON -- The nation's cattlemen, concerned about legal action taken in Oklahoma regarding poultry waste, are pushing a House committee to pass a bill that would prevent the regulation of animal manure under federal environmental laws.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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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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For more than four decades, Rod Arbuthnot has run his farm in a fashion many conservationists love. He uses rotational grazing on his rangeland. Some 41 acres of native grass strips protect water quality on the streams that flow on the farm. Wildlife areas are left for deer, turkey and prairie chickens.
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MAN VERSUS BEAST: Overtrapping and overhunting in the early 20th century drove many species &#151; river otters, black bears and Canada geese, for example &#151; from their natural habitats.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 7--The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has singled out two programs in the central San Joaquin Valley for their innovative approaches to farming in a more environmentally friendly way.
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Wild pigs are destroying farmland and forest. Controlling them is becoming serious business.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky reveals the effectiveness of a concealed location for viewing birds, as he describes the behavior of quail and jays in his yard.
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Researchers at Iowa State University are pecking away at ways of making environmentally friendly plastic. From golf tees to a biodegradable flower pot that can be planted directly in the ground, scientists are studying ways of making plastics from things such as chicken feathers and soy protein.
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Science & environment: Environmental and social impact of producing the crops may be greater than originally thought