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Farming Boost May Stall Green Land Gains: Higher Crop Prices Have Farmers Leaving Conservation...
redorbit.com May 12, 2008
By Amy Rinard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 12--Intensified farming this season to capitalize on high corn and soybean prices could be a boon for Wisconsin farmers but also could have a harmful effect on wildlife habitat, water quality and soil erosion control.
Poetic Justice
blogimprimatur.blogspot.com May 13, 2008
Long about eleven years ago, here in the Dairy State the Feds and Guv’nor decided they’d pay farmers not to till some of their land. That way, we wouldn’t have soil erosion, fertilizer runoff, and, well, dangit, everything’d be just a little bit greener.This project was called the Conservation...
Farming Boost May Stall Green Land Gains
redorbit.com May 12, 2008
By AMY RINARD Intensified farming this season to capitalize on high corn and soybean prices could be a boon for Wisconsin farmers but also could have a harmful effect on wildlife habitat, water quality and soil erosion control. ... Thousands of acres of conservation...
Farming boost may stall green land gains
jsonline.com May 12, 2008
Intensified farming this season to capitalize on high corn and soybean prices could be a boon for Wisconsin farmers... ... Higher crop prices have farmers leaving conservation effort By AMY RINARD arinard@journalsentinel.com Intensified farming this season to capitalize...
Farmers leaving conservation program
jsonline.com May 12, 2008
Intensified farming this season to capitalize on high corn and soybean prices could be a boon for Wisconsin farmers but also could have a harmful effect on wildlife habitat, water quality and soil erosion control. ... Thousands of acres of conservation grasslands are...
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Agriculture & Forestry, Corn Farming, Soybean Farming, Pea & Bean Farming, Agriculture, Grain Farming, Crop Production, United States of America, North America, Wisconsin