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Florida Dairy Farms and Springs Protection - Got Solutions?

From the top of the main silo at Don Bennick's North Florida Holsteins dairy farm, all I can see is cows - 6,400 of them to be exact, grazing on some 1,500 acres. To the untrained eye, the scene is innocent and bucolic. But there's something else going on...

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Looking to Litter - Energy Company Sees a Future in Chicken Manure

Poultry farms in the U.S. generate roughly 17 million tons of chicken manure annually, creating a huge disposal problem. Some energy researchers believe they have a solution: use that manure to create electricity...

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Message from FPPC Chairman & CEO Richard J. Salem to Summit attendees

Thank you for the warm welcome extended Farm Pilot Project Coordination from our Nation’s “breadbasket.” Over the past half-decade, we have been working with conservationists, farmers and producers in the region to develop...

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Governor Culver Addresses Farm Pilot Project Coordination (FPPC) Iowa Technology Summit

Governor Chet Culver spoke this morning at the Farm Pilot Project Coordination Iowa Technology Summit in Des Moines, which brought agriculture experts together to address sustainability challenges facing animal...

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Green Fields: Pork producers want to 'do things right'

The National Pork Board, which runs the producer checkoff, celebrated at the World Pork Expo that about 60 percent of all hog production sites have been certified through the organization's...

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Governor Culver to Address Farm Pilot Project Coordination (FPPC) Iowa Technology Summit

Iowa Governor Chet Culver will be the keynote speaker this month at the Farm Pilot Project Coordination (FPPC) Iowa Technology Summit, to be held June 14-16 in Des Moines. The regional summit will bring...

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EPA Announces New Members of Agricultural Advisory Committee

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced new members of the Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee (FRRCC) for its 2010-2012 term. The FRRCC is an independent committee that...

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The whey to greener electricity - Using dairy waste as an alternative source of power

IT MAY seem ridiculous, but in the hunt for sources of alternative energy researchers have come up with fuel cells which are powered by cheese—or at least whey, a by-product...

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More than 100 people turn out in Tampa for EPA hearing on water quality

Gus Muench routinely pulls pieces of plastic from his crab traps on the Little Manatee River. It's the kind farmers use to grow crops. But it's what he doesn't see that...

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Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable

Animal manure, a byproduct as old as agriculture, has become an unlikely modern pollution problem, scientists and environmentalists say. The country simply has more dung...

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Down on the Farm, an Endless Cycle of Waste

Day and night, a huge contraption prowls the grounds at Frank Volleman’s dairy in Central Texas. It has a 3,000-gallon tank, a heavy-duty vacuum pump and hoses and, underneath, adjustable blades...

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New Mexico Dairy Pollution Sparks 'Manure War'

More and more milk comes from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), where large herds live in feedlots, awaiting their thrice-daily trip to the milking barn. A factory farm with 2,000 cows produces...

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States struggle to meet rural behavioral health needs without federal funds

Facing increased demand for behavioral health services in rural areas that rivals what was seen during the 1980s farm crisis, agencies in at least 28 states have been looking to Iowa for advice...

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Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells

There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which...

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New Culprit Seen in Ozone Depletion

Government scientists who study the depletion of Earth’s protective ozone layer are pointing to a previously unheralded culprit: nitrous oxide. Most of the nitrous oxide in the atmosphere emerges...

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Manure means money to handlers gathered in Iowa

To the folks who make a living spreading manure on farm fields, the business end of hogs, cows and chickens can...

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