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Faced with the prospect of defeat that would change how it enforces the Clean Water Act (CWA) on animal operations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to drop an appeal of a lower court decision, Alt v. EPA.
Maui County is home to just 160,000 residents, but the moratorium could have effects across the nation because multinational seed producers Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical research and develop new varieties there.
Yesterday, NCBA and the Public Lands Council filed comments calling for the immediate withdrawal of the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed “waters of the United States” rule.
Don’t care for politics? You’re not alone, especially this year, when the approval rating for Congress falls somewhere near palmer amaranth on the popularity scale in farm country.
Despite some legal hiccups, researchers had good success growing the crop.
Indiana and other Midwestern corn and soybean farmers are being accused of threatening the survival of monarch butterflies.
The city of Sioux Falls, S.D., plans to spend more than $1 million to pay farmers to keep their cattle out of the Big Sioux River and its tributaries.
Democratic candidate Chuck Hassebrook said he would work to lower property taxes, but he’d prefer that most of the benefits go to owner-occupied farms and landowners who actually live in Nebraska.
