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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Biosolids Recycling by Farmers
2015-12-24 09:59:00| Waste Age
The biosolids recycling business won a potentially precedent-setting court decision. read more
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How will Midwest farmers prepare for the impact of climate change?
2015-12-24 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: You can bet the farm that climate change is happening and that it will change the way we approach agriculture. For example, heres the climate science forecast for Illinois 20 to 40 years from now: temperatures akin to todays mid-South and rainfall patterns comparable to present-day East Texas. That may sound OK to you right now all bundled up in blankets in the middle of winter but you might feel differently when the summers start getting toastier. And according to a study recently published...
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How Can Farmers Live With Volatility?
2015-12-23 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - Price volatility is something that farmers are going to have to live with as it is going to be a feature of farming given the impacts of climate change and swings in production across the globe, writes Chris Harris.
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Assam border farmers fenced in by changing climate conditions
2015-12-22 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Golok Das, a farmer in Assam, is happy with the harvest produced by his main 6-hectare farm. But he'd love to sell another 4-hectare plot, just half a kilometre away, even though it's equally fertile. Why? It sits on the other side of a barbed-wire fence marking the Bangladesh border, and that means he can't irrigate it. The fence was built in 1987 to prevent illegal migration from Bangladesh to India. It traces a line about 150 yards inside the actual border, on Indian land, since no treaty agreement...
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The Parched West: California Wants to Store Water for Farmers, but Struggles Over How to Do It
2015-12-21 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Californians suffering through the fourth year of a punishing drought have a new worry. With fierce storms predicted for the winter, they are bracing for floods by stockpiling sandbags and rushing to buy insurance. Yet those who need water the most, farmers, are in a poor position to take advantage of any deluge. If El Nio floods pour into the Central Valley, the farmers will inevitably watch millions of gallons of water flow to the sea. This state, forward-looking on other environmental issues,...
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