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Farmer alters crop rotation, drainage to cut weather extreme risks

2014-02-07 21:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Opts out of continuous corn The combination of weather extremes and disease and insect pressure have been especially hard on continuous corn, which took a 40-bushel per acre yield hit in 2010, 2011 and 2012 compared to rotated corn. For me the answer was to go back to a 50:50 corn-bean rotation, says Gary Niemeyer. It had been 85:15. read more

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South Carolinas Horry County Alters Flow Control Law, Exempts C&D

2014-01-22 19:57:00| Waste Age

South Carolinas Horry County Council has altered its flow control law to allow construction and demolition debris (C&D) haulers take their waste to landfills outside the county. read more

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Climate change alters land map of India

2014-01-18 19:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hindustan Times: The adverse effects of climate change are being felt on more than a fourth of Indias landmass over the last four decades. While some parts of the country have turned arid, others have witnessed more rainfall. A study by the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) at Hyderabad has revealed that about 27% of the countrys geographical area has been directly impacted by climate change, a result of increase in mean surface temperatures coupled with changes in rainfall pattern between...

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