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NCBA, Farm Bureau among groups filing brief in WOTUS challenge
Agri-Pulse | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Federal NewsIn a joint release, NCBA and the PLC said the brief details how the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers disregarded the statutory and constitutional limits of federal authority, lobbied on their own rule-making, and failed to craft a rule that meets the rigors of the law.
ove Over Solar: There’s New Energy Right At Our Feet
Smithsonian Magazine | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Energy NewsEngineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are turning wood pulp, a common waste material, into a flooring that generates electricity. The researchers chemically treated the wood pulp nanofibers that the flooring is made out of with two differently charged materials, so that when someone walks across the floor, these fibers then interact with one another, similar to static electricity. The electrons released by this vibration are then captured by a capacitor that is attached to the flooring and the energy is stored for later use.
Solar farms are uprooting agriculture, farmers say
Del Marva Now | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Energy NewsDon't call it a solar "farm" — at least not to a Maryland farmer. The Maryland Farm Bureau's membership voted in 2014 to oppose appending the word "farm" to the label of any alternative energy-generation plant, including a solar farm facility. Photovoltaic cells are springing up across the Eastern Shore at an unprecedented clip. Fueled by hefty government subsidies and relatively cheap prices for acreage, utility-scale solar facilities are supplanting one farm after another.
arched from peanuts, the South's hot new oil
The New York Times | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Food NewsThere may be more improbable culinary trails than the one that leads from a red clay road here in the country’s most prolific peanut-growing state to Beyoncé’s plate at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. But as zero-to-hero food tales go, this is a good one. The star of the story is cold-pressed green peanut oil, which some of the best cooks in the South have come to think of as their local answer to extra-virgin olive oil. Buttery, slightly vegetal and hard to find, Southern green peanut oil is a new entry into the growing regional oil game.
Cuomo: proposed Canadian milk rules could hurt NY exports
Times Herald Record | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Agriculture NewsNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has written to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about possible regulations on milk that Cuomo says could devastate the state's dairy export industry. The Democratic governor said Monday that if the rules proposed in Canada take effect it could amount to a $50 million market loss for New York's dairy industry. Cuomo's office says the proposal would restrict imports of ultra-filtered milk from New York state.
ADM to build new animal feed facility in Illinois
Watt Ag Net | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Agriculture NewsADM is working with local permitting authorities and plans to begin construction in the near future, with a targeted completion date of mid-2018. The current Quincy facility will remain operational during construction.
Worker Awarded $700K Following Collapse In Field
Growing Produce | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Agriculture NewsA Maine judge awarded a Machias, ME, man close to $730,000 in damages for injuries he sustained following a heat stroke collapse. Michael Lund sued Millard A. Whitey & Sons in 2015, claiming the berry farm did not prepare him for the burning of a field, work he says he had never done before. Lund allegedly became disoriented during the second burn of the afternoon of March 22, 2012 and collapsed. In a jury-waved trial in September, Superior Court Justice William Anderson found evidence that Millard A.
Cash Rents Still Went Up in 13 States This Year
Hoosier Ag Today | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Agriculture NewsRents did drop between six and seven percent in some states, but in others the rates were five percent higher. Thirteen states saw higher cash rates this year, including Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, South Carolina and Mississippi.
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives
Science Daily | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Food NewsSpinach is no longer just a superfood: By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone.
Where’s HSUS on the Ballot this Year?
Humane Watch | Posted onNovember 2, 2016 in Rural NewsEvery time you look up it seems as though the Humane Society of the United States is spending money –except on pet shelters. With Election Day fast approaching, let’s take a look at some of the ballot initiatives that has HSUS reaching for its checkbook or media rolodex. One of the initiatives HSUS is pumping money into is Question 777 in Oklahoma. This amendment would make any law “restricting or regulating” the farming industry in the state more vulnerable to lawsuits, which would likely result in fewer government regulations over the industry.