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Farm Bill CouldnHide Farm Locations From Public WASHINGTON November 7, 2013 (AP) By MARY CLARE JALONICK AssociatednPress Share 10 Share on email 1nComments Parts of the nation’sn$500 billion farm bill that Congress is considering would prohibit thengovernment from disclosing some information about farmers or their employees,npossibly preventing people from learning […]

[See the second half f the following story] That ‘Bebee’ blunder Mike Masterson This unanticipated “ouchie” literally did leave a mark the other day at the unveiling of that magnificent, 15,000-pound sandstone monument leading to the new U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith. Although the mistake has been repaired, the […]

Be a Good Steward of the Land, Air and WaterA response to Jerry McMasters’ Arkansas Pork Producers: Anyone concerned about water and air quality does not locate a hog production facility that produces two million gallons of untreated hog sewage waste to be spread on fields next to a major […]

n [NOTE: See the News posting “Give Pork’s Flak Man a Bonus – Mike Masterson” to read the response to The Jerry Masters Op-Ed included in this article] http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/10/25/pork-producers-suggest-more-danger-to-buffalo-river-from-people-than-pigs n n Pork producers suggest more danger to Buffalo River from people than pigsPosted by Max Brantley on Fri, Oct 25, 2013 […]

http://www.porknetwork.com/pork-news/latest/Activists-speak-against-Ark-pork-operation-230701351.htmln n Activists speak against Ark. pork operationJoAnn Alumbaugh, Editor, Pork Network | Updated: 11/05/2013 According to an article in the Arkansas Dem-Gazette, two activists spoke to an audience in Little Rock, Ark., last week claiming large livestock farms have damaged rivers, fish and ecology-based tourism in North Carolina.The meeting was […]

[NOTE: See the News posting “Pork producers suggest more danger to Buffalo River from people than pigs” to read the Jerry Masters’ Op-Ed referred to in this article.] http://mikemastersonsmessenger.com   I don’t know how much Jerry Masters is compensated as executive vice president of the politically active Arkansas Pork Producers Association, […]

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20131031/NEWS01/310310017/Hog-farm-protestors-describe-hazards-factory-farms-along-Buffalo-River From the Baxter County Bulletin, October 30,2013n

Hog factories a major threat to areaBecky GilletteWednesday, October 30, 2013 Halloween horror came early to Eureka Springs Monday when representatives from the Waterkeeper Alliance from North Carolina came to give personal reports backed up by photographic evidence of the devastating impacts from the production of eight to ten million […]

Harrison Daily Times Warning: hogs worse than smell; Hammerschmidt pushed to protect Buffalo National River  Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:45 amnn By DWAIN LAIR dwainl@harrisondaily.com   Retired Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt encouraged a group of about 50 people Tuesday night to press on and spread the word that the […]

Publication:Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date:Oct 22, 2013; Section:Arkansas; Page Number:7 New take on water repealedLaw said to clash with federal actRYAN MCGEENEY ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE After months of revising existing water regulations to comply with new state water-quality standards, staff members at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality must now revert to the […]

From Arkansas Times (read comments)n http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/10/25/pork-producers-suggest-more-danger-to-buffalo-river-from-people-than-pigs Pork producers suggest more danger to Buffalo River from people than pigsPosted by Max Brantley on Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:35 PM  CAUTION: People use the Buffalo River and they’re more damaging than pigs, the Arkansas Pork Producers say. The campaign against a […]

Buffalo River group fears large operation is just the first7-city lecture tour targets hog farm By Ryan McGeeney The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance is sponsoring a seven-city tour to spread the message that large-scale farming operations rarely show up alone. Elva Kelly, a board member and spokesman for the Buffalo […]

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/oct/19/alliance-warns-and-informs-20131019/ Alliance warns and informsBy Mike Masterson The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance is sounding an alarm to warn of the potential storm of hog factories approaching Arkansas. The nonprofit group’s forewarning comes in the form of a seven-city educational tour of public meetings it’s sponsoring beginning next Friday in Fayetteville […]

“The Buffalo Flows” an excellent documentary produced by the University of Arkansas about the Buffalo National River, will be shown on Saturdays at 1 p.m. through Thanksgiving weekend at the Buffalo Theater in Jasper. No one can see as much of the river in a canoe, as you will see on our […]

One river’s purity What about Buffalo? By Mike Mastersonnn The multinational food giant Cargill Inc. of Minnesota was generous enough to donate $50,000 toward promoting better understanding of water-quality issues and improving water quality in the Illinois River of Northwest Arkansas. Yet it has provided nothing to help geoscientist John […]

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/oct/04/hog-farm-tests-start-2014-20131004/ Hog-farm tests to start in 2014 Leader: UA role is research By Ryan McGeeney Posted: October 4, 2013 at 2:28 a.m.  FAYETTEVILLE – Soil and water testing in the areas surrounding a hog farm in Newton County will begin in late winter or early spring of 2014, a University of […]

Hogs, karst and the Buffalo By Mike Masterson Arkansas geoscientist John Van Brahana plans on taking to the pulpit tonight in Fayetteville. His sermon (of sorts) about being stewards who supposedly protect God’s Country begins promptly at 7. He’ll be disclosing and discussing the early results of water-quality testing that […]

KTHV TV Report LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – Legislators decide to spend more than $300,000 to study runoff from a hog farm in North Arkansas. C and H Hog Farm has been heavily debated, and now the Newton County property will open its gates to an environmental study. The measure […]

NWAOnline UA division to study effects of hog farm on soil, water By Sean Beherec This article was published September 6, 2013 at 5:15 a.m. A legislative subcommittee Thursday approved spending $340,000 in general improvement funds to study the environmental effects of a commercial pig farm on the Buffalo River […]