http://www.headspringfarm.com Supporting Agriculture and Environment on the Web Copyright 2007, Head Spring Farm, All rights reserved. For personal use only. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:37 EST en-us http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120400565.html Researchers at Iowa State University are experimenting with the placement of perennial prairie strips in corn and soybean fields as a way of mitigating run off and soil erosion...problems nearly as old as farming itself. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:37 EST http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_72/s0812042690237.htm Water conservation companies are finding plenty of opportunities in the Souths drought conditions using satellite and wireless networks to bring sensors and monitoring to farmers devices. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:49 EST http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20081030_Army_sizes_up_Ordnance_Reef.html The Army will begin a 1.2 million dollar yearlong study to try to determine the long-term effects of the dumping of 2,000 World War II-era conventional weapons on the sediment, shellfish, limu and fish near Ordnance Reef in Waianae. Mon, 1 Nov 2008 15:27 EST http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/184/story/289801.html If New Jersey allows drilling for oil and natural gas off its coast, it may dredge up an ugly and dangerous past. The U.S. Army has admitted to dumping 64 million pounds of chemical weapons into U.S. waters from World War I until the early 1970s. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:34 EDT http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gB6bi0EyTozdEPy0KGisTQNaS2PQD93CO7OG0 A massive $600 billion stopgap funding bill to fund 2009 budgets slated for a House vote on Wednesday will not include any language on drilling. The underlying bill includes $25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers in addition to keeping the government open past the Oct. 1 start of the 2009 budget year. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:34 EDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092301892.html BALTIMORE - Federal officials have issued a much sought-after disaster declaration for the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery, making watermen eligible for funding to help them deal with severe harvest limits, Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski said today. Wed, 23 Sep 2008 11:35 EDT http://www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080918.asp ... the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Pasadena, California, affirmed a decision that EPA must set standards to control storm water pollution from strip malls, subdivisions and other new development. EPA and the National Association of Homebuilders had appealed the lower courts ruling from 2006... Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35 EDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091100228.html Engineers with their hands on regional flood gates had a choice last weekend; Allow widespread flooding in the Chicago area, or open the gates and risk contamination at Lake Michigan water intakes. As the rain kept falling, gates opened one by one, letting more than 90 billion gallons of storm runoff burble into the lake. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:46 EDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103841.html?hpid=topnews Maryland regulators today will announce the tightest-ever controls on what Eastern Shore poultry farmers do with their birds waste, officials said yesterday, adopting a tougher stance toward state agricultural interests in a bid to reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:00 EDT http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20080912/981/tsc-new-technology-would-enable-crops-to.html Professor Leslie has demonstrated that, by running irrigation lines under the ground beneath the plants, the root systems of the plants provide enough of a pressure gradient to draw up water without the high energy consumption usually required for desalination. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:32 EDT http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/congress-poised-to-lift-drilling-ban-off-floridas-gulf-coast-drilling-poses-potential-threat-to-florida-shores_18161/ Aerial view of tar washed up on a beach in Florida. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:17 EDT http://stormh20.com/september-2008/dead-zone-hypoxia-5.aspx A Grim Outlook for the Chesapeake Bay Fri, 05 Sep 2008 8:31 EDT http://web.charleston.net/news/2008/aug/13/marketing_tool_or_subsidy50616/?print Island developers want to build 50 homes and a half-mile concrete revetment to prevent the Kiawah River from turning the spit into an island. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:48 EDT http://www.headspringfarm.com/pressreleases/OFFSHOREDRILLING.pdf Offshore Drilling Talking Points and Myths! Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:53 EDT