Mountainous waste Duane Woltjen, an active member of (and leader in) virtually all environmental efforts across our state, and an advocate for our Buffalo National River, wrote to comment on my column in response to Warren Carter’s May 16 guest essay explaining why the Farm Bureau supports the controversial C&H […]
Inquiry is nearly finished at JBSBrazil meat giant adheres to orderby GERSON FREITAS JR. BLOOMBERG NEWS | Today at 1:43 a.m JBS SA is close to completing an internal investigation that stands to give Brazilian prosecutors additional evidence of wrongdoing as part of a leniency deal in a corruption scandal. […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Under fire by Mike Masterson | Today at 4:30 a.m. You may recall the pig-in-a-poke legislation known as Senate Bill 550 introduced by Sen. Gary Stubblefield during the recent General Assembly. The former dairy farmer from Branch was pushed whole hog by our unelected fourth branch of government, otherwise known […]
Arkansas Times After the flood: assessing the impact on livestock operations BY Max Brantley nn ON June 3, 2019 Preservation of life and property is paramount with Arkansas River at historic levels in Arkansas, but questions have also begun about what’s been put into the river by flood water. One example: Runaway barges filled […]
NWAOnline MIKE MASTERSON: Another viewThe C&H debacle by Mike Masterson The executive vice president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau recently wrote a guest essay on this page defending his support for C&H Hog Farms and its misplaced location deep within the environmentally fragile and precious Buffalo National River watershed. After discussions […]
NWAonline Letters May 20, 2019 at 1:52 a.m. We take it personally The recent guest column by Warren Carter of the Arkansas Farm Bureau justifies his ardent defense of C&H Hog Farms by claiming that “it’s personal” to him. Well, it’s personal, too, for the rest of us who want […]
Democrat Gazette OPINION – Guest writerIt’s personal Why Farm Bureau supports C&H; by Warren Carter Special to the Democrat-Gazette | Recent guest writers have attempted to vilify Arkansas Farm Bureau while questioning our involvement in the struggle to keep C&H Hog Farms in Newton County open and operating. The reason […]
Buffalo can’t wait; Hog farm near river must close by Teresa Turk and Lin Wellford Special to the Democrat-Gazette | Today at 3:02 a.m. Earth Day celebrations are intended to remind us of our collective duty to care for the planet that sustains us. It’s all the more poignant […]
Harrison Daily Times Data doesn’t support Buffalo National River pollution theories Staff Report [email protected] Apr 26, 2019 The junior high school science fair asks students to form a hypothesis and then use scientific methods to determine if the hypothesis is correct. In some cases the hypothesis is found to be […]
Endangered river by Mike Masterson | Today at 1:47 a.m Our treasured Buffalo National River has made the nonprofit American Rivers’ annual report, “America’s Most Endangered Rivers,” for a second year. The suffering stream ranked eighth in the latest report’s Top Ten list; it was last included in 2017. What a disgrace […]
Baxter Bulletin Buffalo makes list of ‘endangered’ rivers SCOTT LILES, Baxter BulletinPublished 9:46 p.m. CT April 16, 2019 | Updated 4:05 p.m. CT April 17, 2019 The Buffalo National River has been included on list of “America’s Most Endangered Rivers” by a prominent river-advocacy group for the second time in three […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: Protecting the riverby Mike Masterson | Today at 1:52 a.m Reader Nancy Baxter was among those expressing disdain for GOP state Sen. Gary Stubblefield’s Senate Bill 550 that Gov. Asa Hutchinson rightly sidetracked late last month. That’s the Farm Bureau-embraced bill I’m sure many readers recall that would have […]
TOM DILLARD: Inflicting harm upon ourselves The recent efforts among some legislators to defend large confined hog production facilities near the Buffalo National River remind me that we Arkansans have long had a propensity for shooting ourselves in the feet. All too often during the past 200 years our elected […]
OPINION MIKE MASTERSON: Good for GuvAgainst SB550 I was pleased, as were many across Arkansas, to see our governor step forward the other day to effectively sidetrack that terrible bill (SB550) by Sen. Gary Stubblefield, which would have handed regulatory authority over hog factories by the EPA-qualified Arkansas Department of […]
BRENDA BLAGG: Constant vigilanceBill to change farm regulation earns oppositionby Brenda Blagg | Today at 1:00 a.m. State lawmakers are getting an earful these days on legislation that would change how hog farms are permitted in this state. They should be. Credit the long-running travails of a controversial hog farm near the […]
NWA EDITORIAL: Protect the BuffaloWhile you’re at it, do it for entire state by NWA Democrat-Gazette | Today at 1:00 a.m. Virtually every perspective on the biggest issues known to humans has been boiled down to a few words and printed on bumper stickers. What will we do when self-driving […]
Arkansasonline Arkansas governor calls for postponing hog-farm bill Federal agency is looking at measure, Hutchinson says by Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Monday that he hopes state lawmakers don’t proceed with a bill that would change how concentrated animal feeding operations, namely hog farms, would be permitted. Given that […]
Arkansasonline Governor says lawmakers should pull bill that would change how Arkansas farms get permits by Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he wants state lawmakers to pull a bill that would change how hog farms and other farms are permitted. In a meeting with reporters on Monday afternoon, Hutchinson […]
Arkansas Times The clean water fight puts spotlight on agency not up to the task Posted By Max Brantley on Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 7:27 AM The Farm Bureau has assembled a mighty rural lobbying force to transfer regulation of liquid animal waste (pig manure particularly) from the Department of Environmental Quality to the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, which isn’t always able to […]
Talk Business Gov. Hutchinson: Not ‘right time’ to transfer control of state’s animal waste program from ADEQ by Wesley Brown ([email protected]) Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters on Monday (March 25) that he does not a support a controversial proposal approved by the Arkansas Senate last week that will transfer oversight of liquid […]