Archive for November, 2011
Scarcity and degradation of land and water: growing threat to food security
Monday, November 28th, 2011Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around the globe at risk, posing a profound challenge to the task of feeding a world population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, according to a [...]
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Iowa Learning Farms Offers How-to DVD on Manure Management
Monday, November 28th, 2011Iowa manure application season is approaching. With that comes the need to review or develop a nutrient management plan that includes manure sampling for nutrient analysis along with appropriate application methods. With a manure management plan, manure nutrients can be used for crop production while protecting soil [...]
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EPA’s Regulatory Burdens Threaten Family Farms
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011Testifying yesterday on behalf of AFBF before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade, Carl Shaffer, president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, said EPA proposals to exert greater regulatory control over agriculture will drive up the cost of producing food, fiber and fuel.
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US Forest Policies Threaten Livestock Grazing
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011The Public Lands Council (PLC) and American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) have multiple concerns with the proposed planning rule, which could be finalised this winter, said Margaret Soulen Hinson, an Idaho cattle and sheep producer and president of ASI.
She spent the bulk of her testimony detailing the negative effect [...]Leia mais
Global renewable energy investment to double over next 10 years
Thursday, November 17th, 2011Global investment in renewable energy infrastructure will double over the next 10 years, soaring to $395bn a year by 2020, according to a major new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
The report, entitled Global Renewable Energy Market Outlook, also predicts that growth will be maintained throughout the 2020s, [...]Leia mais
Nutrient Management Key to Reducing Dissolved Phosphorus in Lake Erie
Friday, November 11th, 2011armers and other key stakeholders successfully reduced total phosphorus going into Lake Erie over the past 50 years, but must revaluate nutrient management practices to more effectively manage dissolved phosphorus in those same bodies of water, according to one Ohio State University Extension expert.
“It’s a different problem [...]Leia mais
Rising Price of Poultry Poop Costs Cattle Operations
Friday, November 11th, 2011The escalating price of fuel, fertilizer, equipment, feed, hay and seed has caused forage and livestock producers to refigure every financial angle in hopes of finding one that will work. Even the price of chicken litter, the once proud member of the dynamic “fescue-litter” duo that fueled [...]
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Methane emissions in grains fed pigs
Monday, November 7th, 2011At the Swine Research and Technology Centre of the University of Alberta in Canada researchers found that enteric methane produced by finisher pigs is affected by dietary crude protein content of barley grain based, but not by corn based diets.
Reducing the crude protein (CP) content in pig diets changes [...]Leia mais
Scientists suggest alternative source of arsenic contamination
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011New research contradicts previous findings that arsenic contamination — an environmental crisis that affects more than 60 million people in the Bengal Basin — in groundwater may result from arsenic coming from man-made ponds, suggesting instead that it originates in sediments in aquifers.
Groundwater sites across southern and eastern Asia contains arsenic [...]Leia mais
Waste-to-Energy Facilities Required to Comply with Environmental Laws, says Briones
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Ruth P Briones, Chairman and CEO of Greenergy Solutions Inc, and Convenor of Zero Waste Philippines’ Forum said that any Material Recovery and Energy Facility (MREF) or Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Facilities to be installed in the Philippines should strictly comply with the country’s Clean Air Act and other environmental laws, and not [...]
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