EnvironmentUniversity of Arkansas scientists found that soil health indicators shift markedly with the season and depth of sampling, and urge farmers to keep their sampling consistent.
EnvironmentFarm families in Oconee County, Georgia, are fighting four proposed routes for a Watkinsville truck bypass that would cut through pasture, ponds and generational farmland.
EnvironmentA study from the €10m Palus Demos project says paludiculture can keep peat carbon locked up while earning farmers an income, but needs long-term trials, suitable machinery and markets.
LivestockVirginia's governor has eased hay-hauling limits and USDA fast-tracked disaster status for four Florida counties as drought tightens feed supplies across the US Southeast.
The Wolfe family's 1,500-acre Fairfield County farm, run on no-till, strip-till and cover crops, has won an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
Willie Aucamp says damage from May's floods, which hit more than 10% of the valley's citrus, runs into hundreds of millions of rand, as farmers also count the cost of foot-and-mouth disease.
Sand dredged from the Fuljor river and dumped on farmland in Kamarkhanda, Sirajganj, has kept 15-20 bigha belonging to ten farmers out of production for nearly two years, with its removal stalled by a legal dispute.
CropsThe TRF3 panel found 'qualified administrative inertia' after Ibama's re-evaluations of imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam sat unimplemented for years; Ibama has 360 days to finish its fipronil review.
Almost every tree of a plantation raised in 2017-18 at Daodhara-Katabari mouza in the Madhutila range of Nalitabari has been cut; the partners say the Forest Department could have stopped it, the range officer says he knew nothing, and the divisional forest officer has formed an inquiry committee.
LivestockGovernor Abigail Spanberger's Executive Order 21 grants over-width waivers for hay haulage from 1 October, opens emergency funding and activates price-gouging protection after Extension put statewide hay yields down 35 percent.
About 55,123 acres of forest in Chattogram, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban are occupied, and 572 forest guards patrol the region's 855,968 acres of woodland.
EnvironmentA non-notified Otago consent allows up to 2,000 cubic metres of wastewater sludge a year on 178 hectares in the Manuherekia catchment; Otago president Anna Gillespie calls it an 'indefensible regulatory disparity' and wants a national rule.
CropsSunRice has shed 80 mill jobs and MP David Farley wants 75 percent of available environmental water sold to irrigators before planting; the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder says its entitlements are cut by the same allocation rules in a dry year.
