Kinze's blueprint sows success
The Des Moines Register Sun, 08 May 2005 2:08 AM PDT
Williamsburg, Ia. - Tractors have been crawling back and forth across the Midwest this spring, pulling planters that drop corn or soybean seeds into freshly tilled soil, four to 32 rows at a time. |
Green(back) acres
Wasilla's Frontiersman Sun, 08 May 2005 6:03 AM PDT
MAT-SU - Much of the best farm fields in Alaska are located around Palmer. The soil is deeper and richer than just about anywhere else in the state and grows enough vegetables and potatoes to fill grocery stores and farmers' markets throughout Southcentral. |
A couple bucks buys an amazing pile of s-tuff
Galesburg Register-Mail Sat, 07 May 2005 10:30 PM PDT
The retail parking lot line-up all around town signals spring: Pallets of potting soil, top soil, cypress mulch, pine bark, manure ... Wait. Manure? Yep. You can buy 40 pounds of dung for $1.33. |
Grassroots
The Des Moines Register Sun, 08 May 2005 2:09 AM PDT
A conference on turning plants into energy and other products will be held 8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. May 16 in the Gallery of the Iowa State University Memorial Union in Ames. |
High nitrate levels detected near Bliss
The Times-News Sat, 07 May 2005 11:52 PM PDT
BLISS -- A Bliss aquifer tied into Walker and Butler creeks is showing high levels of nitrates. The aquifer possesses two water depths. |
Rising costs fuel farmers
Opelousas Daily World Sun, 08 May 2005 0:14 AM PDT
Kenneth Cormier, a rice farmer near Opelousas, uses more diesel fuel than a fleet of long-haul truckers. Just running the pumps to flood his 16,000 acres of rice fields off La. 104 is costing him a quarter million dollars this year. |
$75 million budget gets thumbs-up
Lowell Sun Sun, 08 May 2005 1:47 AM PDT
WESTFORD -- Town Meeting voters were busy yesterday, approving a $75 million budget for fiscal year 2006, a $1.3 million sewer project, establishing an affordable-housing trust fund and passing a right-to-farm bylaw in a marathon eight-hour session at the Abbot School. |
Commissioners Look at Impact of Growth on County
Southern Pines Pilot Sun, 08 May 2005 4:42 AM PDT
Moore County s growth issues were examined through a new set of eyes during a May 2 planning work session of the Board of Commissioners. Andrea Surratt, the new director of planning, told the board that the county s growth will continue to increase just as North Carolina will continue to grow. |
Hot air, pigs and potatoes
Times of Malta Sun, 08 May 2005 2:09 AM PDT
All this talk about Kyoto... then Malta Transport Authority enforcement officers are informed that a police officer must be present when checking vehicles for exhaust emissions. The vehicle roadworthiness test (VRT) has so far failed miserably to regulate emissions on our roads. |
Build homes in right places
Chico Enterprise-Record Sun, 08 May 2005 0:23 AM PDT
Your writer, Steve Brown, is correct in citing the growth rate in Chico for one year, but he fails to state that the population of Chico grew 35.3 percent between 1990 and 2000. That equates to a growth rate of 3.5 percent per year. |
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