|
Programs pay landowners to help prairie chickens come back
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Farmland owners counties can give prairie chickens a boost while earning income in an unsettling economy.
A new state-federal program will pay farmland owners in 11 Missouri counties to set aside land as habitat and nesting grounds for pr...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Farm Bureau backing animal cruelty legislation in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The Arkansas Farm Bureau has announced it will back legislation to make aggravated animal cruelty a felony on first offense, reversing its opposition to past efforts to stiffen the state's animal cruelty pen...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Research focuses on bringing missing bees back
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Scientists in the field and the lab are trying to solve a mystery critical to the future of American agriculture: Why are honeybee hives failing at a disturbingly high rate?
Some researchers are studying whether pesticides and ot...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
USDA taking applications for cattail eradications
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Federal wildlife officials are taking applications from farmers who want the government to remove cattail-infested wetlands, the preferred habitat of sunflower-snacking blackbirds.
Phil Mastrangelo, the state director for the U.S. De...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
North Dakota officials monitoring bovine TB tests
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- If tests find bovine tuberculosis in a southwestern North Dakota beef cattle herd, wildlife in the area will be destroyed in what one state official calls a "very expensive, very complex and a very ugly business."
The state Game and ...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
|
