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Conservation Success Story: The Ingram Farm
A smart man learns from his mistakes, Terry Ingram likes to say, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Taxpayers Get Soaked to Prop Up Farm Income
Federally subsidized crop insurance is now the most expensive program supporting farm income, so it's no surprise that it will be at the center of the Senate Agriculture Committee's deliberations on...
EWG 2013 Farm Bill Platform
When Are Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes "Superbugs?"
Last week, the Environmental Working Group released a report analyzing antibiotic resistance of bacteria detected in supermarket meat. We unearthed data buried deep in the annual report of theNational...
Better Bug Killers Through Farm Bill Reform
Could the Farm Bill be an opportunity to promote better bug killers?
Farm Bill Reform Can Help Defeat Superbug Surge
EWG argues for reform of farm programs to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in livestock production after analysis of recent government tests reveal more and more supermarket meat harbors antibiotic...
EPA Study Points to Ag for Pervasive River Pollution
A March 26 report by the Environmental Protection Agency has found that 55 percent of the nation's stream and river miles are in poor condition, mainly because of industrial agriculture.
EWG Celebrates 13 Women Scientists in 2013 Women’s History Month
From Kernel to Grave
For years the federal government wrongly sent millions in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies to dead farmers – a black eye for subsidy defenders and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Now it seems...
Where Does All That Corn Ethanol Come From?
In recent years, millions of acres of America's native grasslands have been plowed under to grow corn for ethanol to blend into gasoline. And new research is clearly pointing to the federal ethanol...
Satellite Study Documents Vast Loss of Midwest Grasslands
The South Dakota researchers, Christopher K. Wright and Michael C. Wimberley, focused on grassland conversion in areas close to wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region – a critical Midwest flyway for...
Cover Crops Shouldn’t Force Coverage Loss
The Questions That Won’t Be Asked
Corn Ethanol: Bad for Farmers, Consumers and the Environment
By driving up the price of food and gas and causing costly engine damage, corn ethanol has been bad news for consumers. And by driving up the price of food, corn ethanol is also costing all of us...
Sediment Study Shows More Soil Conservation Needed
Faster is better, right? So is it a good thing that it now takes only 59 days for an Iowa lake to undergo a change that once took 631 days? No. Not when we're talking about how long it takes for a...
10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
Secret Farm Bill Threatens an “Environmental Cliff”
Congressional leaders in search of a compromise to avoid plunging off the “fiscal cliff” are under growing pressure from the agriculture subsidy lobby and its friends in Congress to attach a subsidy...
Farm Businesses Should Not Have Been Granted the Right to Pollute
A New York Times headline this month (Nov, 13) read: “The Problem is Clear: The Water is Filthy.” It should have read: “The Problem is Clear: Agriculture Granted the Right to Make the Water Filthy.”