Report out on E. coli near farm RYAN MCGEENEYARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE The environmental research team assigned by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture to monitor nutrient and bacteria levels surrounding a controversial Newton County hog farm has released its third quarterly report.The Big Creek Research Team, headed by Andrew Sharpley, […]
FAYETTEVILLE — On the second day of a conference that has centered on “wicked problems” across the state, water quality experts spent Wednesday morning discussing the relatively recent addition of a controversial hog farm within the Buffalo National River Watershed.After an introduction from Brian Haggard, director of the Arkansas Water […]
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/07/07/hutchinson-backs-existing-hog-operation-in-buffalo-watershedHutchinson wouldn’t push to shut hog operation in Buffalo watershed Posted By Max Brantley on Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:00 AM Asa Hutchinson, the Republican candidate for governor, talked with Roby Brock at Talk Business about tax, business and education issues. He covered familiar ground, but his resistance to […]
Designer hog sees, hears betterCouple propagates, trademarks breed over 8 yearsBy Ryan McGeeneyPosted: July 6, 2014 at 2:27 a.m. Ryan McGeeney FAYETTEVILLE –When Rose Konold, co-owner of Mason Creek Farm in Fayetteville, roams the farm’s pastures in the early afternoon to check on her hogs, she knows her star sow will […]
Feeding Operations A Threat To WatershedPosted: July 4, 2014 at 1:30 a.m. I support the proposed ban of medium and large concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in the Buffalo River watershed. This action would be a step in the right direction to protect our state from the well-documented harm […]
Virus Plagues the Pork Industry, and EnvironmentalistsBy STEPHANIE STROM JULY 4, 2014 A deadly virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PEDv, is estimated to have killed, on average, more than 100,000 piglets and young hogs each week since it first showed up in Iowa in May 2013, wreaking havoc on the […]
Honolulu Star Advertiser Industrial food complex hastening climate change By Gary Hooser and Simon Russell POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 02, 2014 In Hawaii, the debate over the safety of GMO products often centers around eating the food or being exposed to chemicals used in its production. Both are important, […]
Click on link to read entire story. EPA study of CAFO emissions grinds on with no end in sight U.S. EPA’s nine-year effort to document air pollution at livestock operations is likely still many years from completion and unlikely to be as useful as industry and environmental groups had hoped. […]
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2014/jun/21/epa-finds-no-issues-at-c-h-hog-farms-20/ EPA finds no issues at C&H Hog FarmsMount Judea operation, area testedBy Ryan McGeeney A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said inspectors found no areas of concern on or around C&H Hog Farms, the concentrated animal feeding operation raising swine in Newton County.The report, signed June […]
Commission holds public hearing on banning new large hog farms in Buffalo River Watershed[Click link above to see accompanying photos] Posted By David Ramsey on Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:36 PM The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission held a public meeting last night in Harrison on a […]
Public debate on future CAFOs goes to commission Newton County Times Posted: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:00 pm |By: Jeff Dezort, editor [email protected] Posted on Jun 18, 2014 by Jeff Dezortnn HARRISON The debate over future permitting of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the Buffalo River Watershed continued last Tuesday […]
http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/d/story/hog-farm-impact-on-buffalo-river-debate Public Meeting Held on Potential Fate of Hog FarmsGrant Sloan nn 06/17/2014 10:36 PM06/17/2014 10:46 PM HARRISON, Ark. — Proposed regulations on hog farms on the Buffalo River Watershed was the topic of heated debate in Harrison, Arkansas Tuesday night. The proposals brought forward by the Ozarks Society and […]
Eureka Springs Independent Summary judgment sought in hog factory lawsuitBecky GilletteWednesday, June 18, 2014 Earthjustice recently filed an 89-page document in support of a summary judgment in the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for providing $3.4 million […]
Buffalo National River Conservationists Push for Size Limits on Hog FarmsKUAR Public Radio By JACOB KAUFFMAN The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission is considering a proposed permanent ban on future large-scale hog farms in the Buffalo National River watershed. The commission is taking public comments in Harrison Tuesday night over […]
Cargill to end gestation crate use for sows http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story Donnelle Eller, [email protected] 12:21 a.m. CDT June 10, 2014n_ Cargill says all the sow barns the Minneapolis-based company owns will move to group housing by year-end 2015, moving away from gestation crates that animal welfare groups have opposed. The company said contract farms […]
ADEQ: Should Big New Hog Feeders Be Banned Near Buffalo River? Public News Service – AR | June 2014 | June 9, 2014 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is seeking public comment on a permanent prohibition on new, confined hog-feeding operations around the […]
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A bad dream Back on the Buffalonn By Mike Masterson This article was published June 8, 2014 at 2:01 a.m. The crystalline Ozark mountain stream was exactly as it had been when I splashed in and fished its cool waters as a teenager in the ’60s. Rushing over […]
Watershed moment: Hog farm raises fresh controversy along Buffalo River in Arkansas Accompanying photos (Click “Buffalo River” gallery) By Michael Kelley, Special to The Commercial Appeal Sunday, June 8, 2014 BUFFALO NATIONAL RIVER, Ark. A lot of spectacular things can happen on the Buffalo River or one of the […]
Click on the Friday, June 6 Ozarks At Large and fast-forward to about 18:30 for the segment.http://www.kuaf.org/ozarksatlarge
EDITORIAL: Let’s dig up some answers about the Buffalo Posted: Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:35 pm Harrison Daily Times On some rocks along the Buffalo River are the fossilized remains of some supersized snail-like creatures. There are some estimates that the remains are several million years old.nn Even three million years ago, […]