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.
Illinois NLRS is ready for July rollout; meetings set
The agriculture industry-backed Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy provides to producers a framework for reducing nutrient losses, improving local water quality and the quality of water leaving the state and entering the Gulf of Mexico.
Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the manufacturer of the first genetically modified apple, announced last week Intrexon Corp. had finished the process of acquiring it.
