Kan. Farmer Signs Conservation Contract
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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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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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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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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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By Steve Bennish Staff Writer  GERMANTOWN -- A plan to carve out a corridor of farms, fields and woodlands is continuing with recent negotiated conservation easements covering 1,100 acres near Twin Creek in Montgomery and Preble counties.
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By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER  STOCKTON, Kan. - When Robin Bailey wanted to escape the Denver suburbs, she bought a 160-acre alfalfa farm in northwest Kansas and fell in love with a pair of creeks that raced through the property. Two ponds she added later were just another bonus.
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A farmer and the State of California reached a deal that will prevent two large industrial dairy operations from being built near the site of the stateâs only town founded and operated by African-Americans.
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By Amanda O'Toole, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 1--A red and yellow sign heralding a new playground stands at the northern entrance of Sedgwick County Park.
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Under a rarely used provision of Georgia's Greenspace Act, a developer  has asked that 6.5 acres of Columbia County land purchased with state funds  as permanent greenspace be released for development.
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By DIRK LAMMERS  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops.  Sen.
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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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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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Payments to Australia's drought-hit farmers could be linked to climate change schemes, under new plans.
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By Michelle Koetters, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 1--LEXINGTON -- Farmers need a "safety net" when it comes to commodity payments, and a congress-man for Central Illinois vows to make the issue his top concern for the 2007 farm bill.   The U.S.
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 16--BOISE -- Farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie won't be torching their fields this summer.
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By Stephens Washington Bureau  Stephens Washington Bureau   WASHINGTON - Ranchers would be paid to conserve rangeland vulnerable to wildfires, under a bill Nevada senators introduced on Monday.
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Interior Secretary Gale Norton has signed an agreement with representatives of Arizona, Nevada and California to protect wildlife habitat on the Colorado River and aid native species.