During the week of Nov. 5, the full U.S. Senate will debate and vote on the 2007 Farm Bill. The Farm Bill that came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee… Read more »
Posts By: Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project
The Case Against CAFOs
The 2007 Successful Farming Pork Powerhouses list is out, and the results are predictable: the 20 biggest swine operations in the nation yet again added sows to their herds during… Read more »
Cancer Connection
October 10, 2007, may very well become known as “Minnesota Atrazine Day” in future years. Discussion of the widely-used herbicide started at 10 a.m. that day with Tyrone Hayes’ appearance… Read more »
Atrazine Expert on MPR’s Midmorning Oct. 10
Tyrone Hayes, the Berkeley researcher whose atrazine research made him persona non grata at an MPCA meeting a few years ago, will be on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning program (91.1… Read more »
Oct. 10 Hearing Examines Science, Pesticides & Intimidation
An Oct. 10 hearing at the State Capitol could send an important message to public servants (and their bosses) who do environmental science: Don’t be afraid to dig up the… Read more »
Manure Down the Rat Hole
I was talking to a hydrologist the other day when he mentioned he was investigating the development of a sinkhole adjacent to a large dairy manure lagoon in Winona County…. Read more »
Pesticide Forum/Whistleblower Fundraiser Oct. 10 in NE MPLS
Want to get the latest facts on one of America’s most popular weed killers while supporting a government whistleblower in his battle to do science in the public interest? Then… Read more »
Watching the Watchdogs
Protecting the environment in our rural communities takes more than getting educated, speaking out, writing letters and attending meetings. It also means bird-dogging those dry documents that fill our county… Read more »
Organic Ag & Erosion: Part II
Dennis “Pesticides Will Save the World” Avery is at it again. This time he used the Star Tribune’s Sept. 6 opinion page to pick on the organic farmers in southeast… Read more »
Making EQIP Live up to its Name
It would be a wise for members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee to keep farmers like Brad and Leslea Hodgson in mind as they hammer out the final version… Read more »