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Court Favors Poultry Farmer in EPA Suit

2013-10-24 15:16:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: American Farm Bureau Federation A federal court on Wednesday ruled in favor of West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt in a lawsuit she brought against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginiaruled that contrary to EPA’s contention, ordinary stormwater from Alt’s farmyard is exempt from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systempermit requirements. read more

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Biotech, farmer associations key for climate adaptation panel

2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: An increasingly extreme climate is presenting new challenges to farmers across the world, and biotechnology and greater collaboration will be two key ways of addressing them, a group of farmers from four continents said during an international roundtable. "GE (genetic engineering) technology has a positive role to play in fighting climate change,' said Gilbert Arap Bor, a Kenyan farmer, business lecturer at the Catholic University of East Africa and one of five farmers taking part in the discussion...

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Farmer stops erosion on highly erodible land

2013-10-22 20:15:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Wisconsin grower uses serious conservation and rotations to win. Though fertile in a good year the Braggers raise 200-bushel corn and 50-bushel soybeans their clay-loam hills are very vulnerable to water erosion. Its the kind of terrain that some believe should not be cropped at all. Yet the Braggers farm this fragile land intensively, achieving high yields with little soil loss. read more

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