http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/08/20/cargill-holding-firm-on-hog-farm-in-buffalo-river-watershed Cargill holding firm on hog farm in Buffalo River watershedPosted By Max Brantley on Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:57 PM Dr. Joe Nix of Arkadelphia, a respected water chemist, is sending to friends and associates a letter he received, dated today, from the president of Cargill Pork about the […]
Minnesota Public Radio Twin Cities environmentalists join fight over Cargill’s Arkansas hog operations Environment Elizabeth Dunbar · St. Paul, Minn. · Aug 15, 2014 Minnesota-based Cargill has been taking heat from conservationists, including some in Minnesota, for one of its contract hog farms in Arkansas. Some of the anger over […]
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/08/14/cargill-arkansas-farm-operations Twin Cities environmentalists join fight over Cargill’s Arkansas hog operations Elizabeth Dunbar Elizabeth Dunbar · St. Paul, Minn. · Aug 15, 2014 Minnesota-based Cargill has been taking heat from conservationists, including some in Minnesota, for one of its contract hog farms in Arkansas. Some of the anger over the […]
Tale of two letters On the Buffalo Mike Masterson (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tue, Aug 12, 2014) For valued readers who mistakenly believe all public reactions to my columns about the state’s unbelievable decision to permit a hog factory in the Buffalo National River watershed are roses and light, I invite you […]
Ecologist steps up Big Creek studyFocus on water quality near hog farmRYAN MCGEENEY ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE As Faron Usrey wades into the Buffalo National River at its confluence with Big Creek, armed with a small, plastic sample jar and a tiny sealable bag, he knows he’s not going to be able […]
On the BuffaloCandidates speak By Mike Masterson You may find it as unsurprising as I do to learn what both gubernatorial candidates have to say (and not) about our state wrongheadedly permitting that controversial hog factory at Mount Judea in our state’s precious Buffalo National River watershed. GOP candidate Asa Hutchinson and […]
Arkansas News BureauLITTLE ROCK Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Director Teresa Marks will retire on Sept. 30, the agency said Wednesday. Gov. Mike Beebe appointed Marks in 2007 to head the state environmental regulatory agency, which has about 400 employees. “I have been so fortunate and I will always […]
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/07/22/governor-candidates-talk-about-hog-farms-in-northwest-arkansas Governor candidates talk about hog farms in Northwest Arkansas Posted By Max Brantley on Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:26 PM The major party candidates for governor have had one joint appearance today and have another scheduled. No debate debates for Republican Asa Hutchinson and Democrat Mike Ross. Here’s […]
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2014/jul/22/vitamins-and-groundwater-20140722/ Dr. John Van Brahana, the widely respected professor emeritus and specialist in hydrology from the University of Arkansas, must be taking mega-vitamins. How else to explain the energy level of this man who for almost a year has volunteered his time and resources, along with a team of volunteers, […]
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 […]