A bird is helping blur the boundary between urban and rural America. A few years ago, a chicken would have been a reliable sign that you’d crossed into farm country. No more. As correspondent Guy Hand reports in this installment of Edible Idaho, chickens are invading many American cities — and helping...
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(GH: From Northwest Public Radio):
Posted: Friday, April 16, 2010
Snohomish, WA – Officials still don’t know what caused a huge manure lagoon at a dairy farm near the town of Snohomish to fail earlier this week. A breach in the dyke that held the manure caused millions of gallons of liquid waste to run into...
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(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.)
RICHLAND, WA – A massive feedlot north of Pasco, Washington can draw as much water as it needs from a deep well according to a decision by a Franklin County Superior judge today. Dryland wheat farmers who have been fighting the 35,000 cow...
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(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.)
Small farmers in Eastern Washington are going to court against an industrial feedlot with 30,000 cows. The source of the conflict is water. The two sides will argue the case tomorrow in Franklin County Superior Court. As Correspondent Anna King reports, the case could...
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It appears that a bill sponsored by Idaho Senator Tim Corder to update Idaho’s animal cruelty laws, which passed the Idaho Senate with a 34 to 1 margin, has been stalled and perhaps killed thanks to House committee leader Representative Tom Loertscher.
Idaho’s animal cruelty laws have been ranked by several organizations as some of...
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The ethical treatment of farm animals is a growing concern for many Americans. And that puts states with relatively few animal cruelty laws, like Idaho, in the cross-hairs of animal welfare groups. It also makes those states attractive to livestock operations looking to relocate to less regulated areas.
In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent...
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(GH: Tom Banse of The Northwest News Network reports on converting cow manure to electricity on Northwest Public Radio)
BELLINGHAM, WA – When you think of what federal economic stimulus money has paid for, the first things that come to mind might be highway paving, energy retrofits or high-speed trains. Now here’s one of the...
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On January 11th, I reported on the drawing-a-line-in-the-sand speech by American Farm Bureau Federation president, Bob Stallman. In his speech, Stallman said farmers and ranchers of all types should “aggressively” defend themselves against “self-appointed and self-promoting food experts” who he said “seek to damage the reputation of traditional agricultural values.” The speech was an...
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The dairy industry in Idaho has seen explosive growth over the last decade or so. According to United Dairymen of Idaho, the state is now the 2nd largest milk producer in the West and the 3rd largest cheese maker in America.
That output comes, in large part, from confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, that...
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(GH) As mentioned in a previous post, Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” spoke at Washinton State University on Wednesday, January 13th. Here, from the agricultural weekly Capital Press, is an article on what Pollan had to say.
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
PULLMAN, Wash. — Michael Pollan believes farmers may eventually solve three of the world’s biggest...
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