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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A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.
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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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Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.
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By MICK HINTON World Capitol Bureau  The measure would limit the attorney general's power to sue the poultry industry.   OKLAHOMA CITY -- A bill that would curb the power of the attorney general to sue poultry companies was stalled in a House subcommittee on Monday.    Rep.
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WEST LAWN, Pa. - Real estate agent Liliana Gomez told sales manager Larry Kitchen about a duck she saw peering down a storm drain on her way to work at GMAC Real Estate Premier Network in Wyomissing, and the two drove back to look.
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By Kylene Kiang, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Sep. 17--Besides paying higher production costs than conventional farms,  U.S.
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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When Attia Abdel-Hamid  Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in  Egypt&#39;s Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts  them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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Pelican nesting grounds will be off-limits to the public this year at a refuge in central North Dakota while biologists plan their most extensive study ever of the big birds.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 18--A proposed federal farm bill could see some local farmers losing their subsidies and others gaining much needed dollars for research, development and marketing.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--Dairy farmer Eric Westra told state regulators Wednesday he has good reasons for complying with potentially expensive new water rules.
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Livestock herds are becoming million-dollar pharmaceutical incubators. Your next prescription may come from a chicken or a goat. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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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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With record yields forecast, sugar beet growers may have to limit what they harvest.
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Manure generated on large U.S. livestock farms, which can later contaminate soil and water, has lead to a fierce debate over whether farmers and ranchers should be held responsible for cleaning up the mess.
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Agribusinesses that have to meet new emissions standards may soon be able to turn their sprinklers on with a system that uses ammonia to run the pumps.