Farm Bureau touts strides in improving Ohio farms’ runoff
Calling public attention to the progress made by farmers to reduce nutrient runoff into waterways is the focus of an Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Water Quality Status Report.
Even when Congress does something, it’s truly nothing
Confession time: During the last three years I often have referred to the 113th and 114th Congress as either "do nothing" or "doing less than nothing."
Newspaper: Impact of Ohio’s estate tax repeal ‘disastrous’
Ohio’s repeal of its estate tax more than two years ago has had a disastrous impact on local communities that relied on revenue from the tax to pay for essential public services.
Gov. Mark Dayton’s call for buffer strips along all streams, rivers, drainage ditches and other waterways may or may not become law this year, but it has helped focus the public’s attention on the terribly deteriorated state of our water resources and agriculture’s role in it.
The organic food industry has tripled in size in the last decade, to an annual take of $35 billion, and it continues to grow at 15 percent to 20 percent per year.
Legendary music icon Neil Young will take a stand against Monsanto in his latest album release, The Monsanto Years. Some of the track titles include Seeds, Too Big to Fail, Monsanto Years and Rock Starbucks.
Farmers oppose Mounds Lake Reservoir in Delaware County
Officials in Anderson, Ind. want to dam the White River and create a 2,100-acre lake in Madison and Delaware counties at a cost of an estimated $440 million.
Texas company eyes Illinois for wind power electric line
Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC of Houston, Texas, plans to start constructing an overhead direct current transmission line through Central Illinois in 2017.
3 Indiana grain elevator victims still hospitalized
Three of the four people injured in a Co-Alliance grain elevator blast in northwestern Indiana remained hospitalized a week after the April 16 explosion.
More than one-third of the total $7.5 million 2015 appropriation due to Illinois Soil and Water Conservation Districts has been suspended by the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget and the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
