• While adult farmers report low seatbelt use and frequent use of tractors without ROPS, it is unknown whether the young adult population has adopted similar tractor driving practices. (cdc.gov)
  • The study highlighted that the farmers whose primary operational motivation was financial were less likely to adopt conservation practices than those with noneconomic primary motivations. (jswconline.org)
  • The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) has released two short films that showcase the efforts of farmers and conservationists in the San Luis Valley of Colorado to address agricultural challenges through improved soil health. (swcs.org)
  • In Washington, members of Congress were quick to point out that other agricultural-related businesses harmed by tariff retaliation may not get the recently announced money being set aside for farmers. (politico.com)
  • Farmers in the midwestern United States have been battling increasing infestations from a variety of stink bug species in recent years, and now they have a new free resource for understanding and managing the emerging pests. (phys.org)
  • This resource is part of the USDA-NIFA funded project for climate and agriculture that gathered data from 35 field sites and thousands of farmers in 9 Midwestern states, with the goal of creating a suite of practices for corn-based systems. (iastate.edu)
  • Irrigation is common practice in California, where farmers and residents depend on groundwater because of ongoing drought and reduced snowpack. (waterworld.com)
  • No-till farming, a technique long known to save farmers time, resources and dollars, is now shown to actually add value to the land on which it's practiced. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • Conventional tilling practices involve farmers making multiple passes over a field, first to till the soil and then to plant seeds. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • By contrast, no-till practices eliminate the first step, and farmers plant seeds in fields without tilling. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • This study suggests that farmland benefits translate into land value benefits, which is typically not considered in debates on no-till pros and cons, and, ultimately, whether or not conventional-till farmers should convert to no-till practices," said Rod Rejesus, professor of agricultural and resource economics at NC State and corresponding author of the paper, in describing the research. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • To conduct the research, the team compared data sets from census survey responses that asked farmers in more than 12 Midwestern states about the market value of their land. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • But in Kern County, according to a Bakersfield Californian report , anxiety was tempered by a sense among some farmers that it was time someone stood up to the unfair trade practices they said they dealt with in the Chinese and South Korean markets. (capoliticalreview.com)
  • In the marble rotunda of the state capitol, he rose to denounce the nitrogen and phosphates that have been flowing in ever-increasing quantities into Iowa's public water supplies - and was cheered by the small crowd of family farmers, concerned mothers, and his new political allies, the legislature's drastically outnumbered Democrats. (yale.edu)
  • Meanwhile, as farmers and farm employees have been pushed off the land, they increasingly look to emigration to the United States-and to towns like Fremont-for work. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • In partnership with the Rodale Institute Midwest Organic Center , these new team members will support Midwestern farmers transitioning to organic. (rodaleinstitute.org)
  • Rodale Institute launched three regional resource centers in Iowa, Georgia , and California in 2019 to provide resources to farmers throughout the country seeking to adopt organic practices, with the goal of soon placing consultants in each hub. (rodaleinstitute.org)
  • Rather, what the department seems concerned with is a complicated dance with other regulatory bodies, particularly the Environmental Protection Agency, to avoid telling the politically important constituency of swing-state Midwestern farmers what to do. (civileats.com)
  • A circular nutrient economy encompasses responsible nutrient management practices for the reduction of nutrient losses and increased recovery of nutrients from waste streams for reuse in agricultural production. (jswconline.org)
  • Although there are technical specifications for subbase composition, in the engineering practice, the subbase soils are comprised of whatever material is found at the site in order to minimize costs for transporting graded material from a quarry. (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • Tiles were put in during the 1900s to drain heavy Midwestern soils in order to enable planting on a massive scale. (waterworld.com)
  • These soils are slow to drain naturally, requiring agricultural drainage to remove excess water from the soil and create a well-aerated environment for plant roots. (waterworld.com)
  • As stated in Ten Ways to Reduce Nitrogen Loads from Drained Cropland in the Midwest , published by L. E. Christianson, J. Frankenberger, C. Hay, M. J. Helmers, and G. Sands of the University of Illinois Extension, "drainage of wet agricultural soils allows timely field operations and helps plant growth to begin early and continue vigorously, resulting in improved productivity. (waterworld.com)
  • Nebraska has infinite opportunities for me to work in diverse agroecosystems and seek ways to improve agricultural production and build more resilient and healthy soils," Córdova said. (unl.edu)
  • The normal agricultural use of atrazine will result in some loss or transport from the soil into the atmosphere, where it may later undergo deposition back to soils or into bodies of water. (cdc.gov)
  • The UCL research created a model that looks at which pollination dependent crops are most threatened over the next 30 years in order to provide a warning to both the agricultural and conservation communities. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • I'm hoping to work on this question in the near future, because it's important to helping understand the relevant bee's population dynamics in modern agricultural systems, as well as what it may mean for Cucurbita crops," López-Uribe says. (ncsu.edu)
  • She stressed the need for US agricultural systems to diversify beyond the major commodity crops, most of which are processed into animal feed. (newfoodmagazine.com)
  • She gets to work on diverse projects - studying the environmental performance of various annual and perennial bioenergy crops, forest and midwestern cropping systems managed within an intensified gradient framework. (unl.edu)
  • Nic is IOIA certified in crops and holds a Master's in Agricultural & Extension Education from North Carolina State University. (rodaleinstitute.org)
  • This 1965 photograph depicted a Buffalo Turbine Sprayer/Duster, which was used to distribute powdered insecticides outdoors, primarily amongst agricultural crops, in order to control arthropodal pests. (cdc.gov)
  • Installation of artificial subsurface drainage, often referred to as tile drainage, has been increasing across agricultural cropland in Midwestern states of the US since the mid-1970s. (nutrientstewardship.org)
  • Nebraska, an agriculturally intensive mid-western state of the United States (U.S.), has a large number of wells with nitrate concentrations above the drinking water standard (10 mg NO3-N/L). Large amounts of nitrogen fertilizers and irrigation water are applied in Nebraska to increase and maintain agricultural production. (unl.edu)
  • They constructed vast irrigation canals to support their agricultural practices and created impressive pottery and jewelry. (itihaspathshala.in)
  • The project goal is to provide new alternatives to purify oilfield produced water by removing emulsified oil, particulates, and dissolved solids to enable inexpensive beneficial use of produced water for agricultural and landscape irrigation and drinking water. (doe.gov)
  • After Canada and the European Union, China is the third biggest international customer for Golden State agriculture, importing more than $2 billion worth in 2016, according to an official state report. (capoliticalreview.com)
  • That's around 10 percent of California's total of $21 billion in international agricultural exports in 2016. (capoliticalreview.com)
  • These favorable conditions and an absence of natural enemies contributed to beetles inhabiting 26 states in the midwestern, eastern and southeastern United States. (thelaunchqueen.com)
  • The Mississippian culture emerged in the southeastern and midwestern regions of the United States from approximately the 9th to the 16th century. (itihaspathshala.in)
  • In response to these concerns, Midwestern agricultural producers have adopted Best Management Practices (BMPs) to increase runoff retention and reduce sediment delivery. (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • To estimate livestock STEC O157:H7 prevalence at US fairs, we collected 2,919 fecal specimens at 29 county fairs in 2 states and at 3 state fairs in 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • Jeana is a former Iowa State Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division President and the 2002 recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Outstanding Scholar Award. (leaders-in-law.com)
  • In discussions leading up to the California Legislature's 2002 decision to end agriculture's exemptions from waste discharge requirements, agricultural interests recognized that the water quality problem was not going to fade. (ucanr.edu)
  • The planned small faculty project outcomes are: (i) greater common understanding of agricultural machinery systems in the U.S. Midwestern and the Uzbekistan agricultural contexts, (ii) broader development of relationships between the respective agricultural machinery faculty and students at Iowa State and TIIAME, and (iii) a strategy for developing a formal and sustainable partnership between the institutions. (iastate.edu)
  • Growing evidence of agricultural water pollution in California's Central Coast even after the implementation of tough water quality regulations has increased the pressure on regional stakeholders. (ucanr.edu)
  • Agricultural pollution affects many water bodies on California's Central Coast and has prompted regulatory action. (ucanr.edu)
  • According to the most recent investigation , there is at least one discernible pattern: the depletion has been fastest in some of the world's major agricultural centres, such as northwest India, northeastern China, northeast Pakistan, California's central valley, and the midwestern United States. (thewaterchannel.tv)
  • Many lawmakers, including those in politically crucial Midwestern states, have criticized the unpredictable nature of the administration's approach to trade and remedies being provided to those hurt by retaliation. (politico.com)
  • Jane Frankenberger, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University and a principal investigator for the USDA-NIFA Sustainable Corn Project shares her research on this topic. (iastate.edu)
  • Two-year corn-soybean rotation coupled with heavy chemical inputs has become the routine practice of agricultural production in the Midwestern United States. (sdstate.edu)
  • As the global population grows, agricultural production needs to keep pace. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • A similar expansion of agricultural lands in countries such as Canada, Argentina and Australia compounded these problems in the international market, where much of U.S. agricultural production was now sold. (humanitiesweb.org)
  • Climate change will make the US Corn Belt (a region of the Midwestern United States that, since the 1850s, has dominated corn production in the US) unsuitable for cultivating corn by 2100 without major technological advances in agricultural practices, an Emory University study has found . (newfoodmagazine.com)
  • While nitrogen is critical for agricultural production, too much nitrogen can negatively affect health and the environment. (waterworld.com)
  • This one poses the question to voters, "Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to ensure that the right of Missouri citizens to engage in agricultural production and ranching practices shall not be infringed? (stlmag.com)
  • All this lowers the cost of corn production in Nebraska and, combined with globalization, it has generated soaring corn exports from the United States to Mexico. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • Atrazine is an extensively-used, broad leaf herbicide, and virtually the entire production volume is released to the environment as a result of agricultural and other weed-control practices. (cdc.gov)
  • But it's important to note that none of these efforts is directed at the core of American agricultural activity-the production of corn and soy," writes Greenberg. (civileats.com)
  • Rotating corn and soybean is an efficient management practice to lower nitrate-N concentrations in the deep vadose zone, compared with continuous corn. (unl.edu)
  • Based on the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates on February 9, 2017, the projected range for U.S. season-average corn price ranged from $3.20 to $3.60 per bushel, while the soybean price ranged from $9.10/Bu to $9.90/Bu. (sdstate.edu)
  • Conversion of the natural prairie-forested landscape in U.S. Midwestern states to a corn-soybean crop rotation has altered the runoff condition and stream hydrology throughout the region by creating more dynamic surface water flow regimes and increasing the likelihood of severe floods. (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • Climate change will cause the US Corn Belt to become unsuitable for cultivating corn if major technological advances in agricultural practices do not take place, according to a new study. (newfoodmagazine.com)
  • The corn pathogen C. nebraskensis has been problematic for many corn-producing Midwestern states and the tomato pathogen C. michiganensis has caused notable losses in years past (Ahmad et al. (biorxiv.org)
  • Following Nebraska corn as it travels across the United States, to foreign countries like Mexico and back to meatpacking plants in Nebraska, illuminates the forces that made immigration a hot-button issue in Fremont. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • Corn is the undisputed king-not since the 1930s has the crop so dominated agriculture in the state. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • The campaign demands a renegotiation of NAFTA, recognition of the multifunctional value of peasant agriculture, a moratorium on genetically modified seeds, a ban on using corn to produce ethanol, and a return to sustainable agricultural practices. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • Natalie Griffiths' research gives us new insights into the novel pathways of carbon cycling in agricultural streams of the Midwestern United States, and how the byproducts of genetically modified corn left on fields after harvest may impact stream ecosystems. (nd.edu)
  • Specifically, Natalie found that agricultural streams are important processors and transporters of carbon to downstream ecosystems, and that genetically modified corn and associated insecticidal proteins are not confined to crop boundaries but instead are commonly found in agricultural streams. (nd.edu)
  • Currently, Córdova is building the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Soil Health Program to support collaborative efforts on soil health science research, extension, and teaching across the state. (unl.edu)
  • and Shannon Sand, Extension Agricultural Economist, UNL. (unl.edu)
  • Prior to working at Rodale Institute, he worked in Extension for the University of Minnesota and North Dakota State University. (rodaleinstitute.org)
  • OBJECTIVE To identify the geographic distribution of exhibition swine in the Midwestern United States, characterize management practices used for exhibition swine, and identify associations between those practices and influenza A virus (IAV) detection in exhibition swine arriving at county or state agricultural fairs. (avma.org)
  • PROCEDURES Inventories of swine exhibited at fairs in 6 selected Midwestern states during 2013 and of the total swine population (including commercial swine) in these regions in 2012 were obtained and mapped. (avma.org)
  • Agricultural fairs exhibiting livestock are increasingly implicated in human Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157:H7) outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • These data suggest that STEC O157 is common and transmissible among livestock displayed at agricultural fairs and persists in the environment after the fair. (cdc.gov)
  • The objectives of this study were to estimate fecal STEC O157:H7 prevalence in livestock on display at US agricultural fairs and to estimate STEC O157:H7 prevalence in the postfair environment, 10-11 months later, when animals were absent. (cdc.gov)
  • We collected fresh fecal specimens at 32 agricultural fairs at 29 small or local county fairs in 2 midwestern states and at 3 large state fairs in 2 midwestern states and 1 southern state. (cdc.gov)
  • This study examined the storm-event based efficiency of GWWs at reducing runoff within an agricultural watershed of the U.S. Midwest using the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP). (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • Average reductions in runoff volumes of about 12% were observed for a 25% conversion of agricultural land to grasslands, with about an average 15% reduction for a 50% conversion. (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • By 2012 he was seeing how the relatively lax controls he had authored were being exploited, leaving his constituents vulnerable to the health consequences of escalating pollution from agricultural runoff. (yale.edu)
  • Also at fair arrival, swine exhibitors completed a survey regarding swine management practices. (avma.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE The exhibition swine population was highly variable and differed from the commercial swine population in terms of pig density across geographic locations, population integrity, and on-farm management practices. (avma.org)
  • The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) and Truterra, LLC have been awarded $1.5 million in funding from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to accelerate the adoption of precision nutrient management and soil health practices in partnership with agricultural retailers in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. (swcs.org)
  • The outcome of this study was to identify and quantify the management practices (e.g., conversion to grass or no-till) needed to mitigate large flood events in the watershed. (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • In order to reduce the risk of losing dissolved P nutrients through subsurface drainage, consider incorporating 4R application practices into your P management. (nutrientstewardship.org)
  • Moreover, it motivated her to seek academic and professional opportunities to learn more about soil properties and land management practices in different countries and cultures. (unl.edu)
  • Her academic journey has taken her to live, work and study in different countries and universities, including Ecuador, Germany, Panama and the United States, which has deepened her worldview on agriculture and soil management. (unl.edu)
  • This article examines the perspectives of Central Coast growers on water quality issues and on the many groups involved in water quality regulation and management, including agricultural groups and the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. (ucanr.edu)
  • Cover crop-based rotational tillage (CCBRT), a practice that reduces the need for tillage and cultivation through the creation of cover crop mulches, has emerged as an alternative weed management practice in organic cropping systems. (mdpi.com)
  • Using this doctrine, Colorado became the first state to formally adopt the concept of prior appropriation for inclusion into the Colorado Constitution in 1876. (colostate.edu)
  • The University of Wisconsin Extension's Agricultural Safety Specialist and Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin have also agreed to include information on grain handling safety in their newsletter and on their websites and information has been provided to agricultural cooperatives and agricultural business instructors at state technical colleges and insurance companies to increase awareness of grain handling safety. (osha.gov)
  • Methods: An online survey was conducted among college students enrolled in agricultural science classes in four Midwestern colleges and universities. (cdc.gov)
  • Known for their large earthen mounds and agricultural practices, they had complex political and social structures. (itihaspathshala.in)
  • A UC Davis economist interviewed by the Times voiced similar concerns, noting California agriculture is more dependent on international sales than other large agricultural states. (capoliticalreview.com)
  • We sampled 316 emerging adult college students from a large Midwestern University and asked them to complete a survey to understand factors that influence emerging adult college students' private health disclosures to their mother and father. (iastate.edu)
  • From its Midwestern hub in Indianapolis, Barnes & Thornburg has aggressively expanded to serve a large network of clients throughout the U.S. In addition to having one of the largest intellectual property practices in the Midwest, the firm's. (vault.com)
  • When large numbers of settlers began to occupy the state in the mid-1800s, they soon became aware of the critical problems surrounding water. (colostate.edu)
  • Iowa State Senator David Johnson has led the fight to reduce agricultural pollution of the state's waters. (yale.edu)
  • Many, if not most, water bodies in Central Coast agricultural areas are severely degraded due to chemical inputs. (ucanr.edu)
  • New York grew as an economic centre, first as a result of Alexander Hamilton's policies and practices as the first Secretary of the Treasury and, later, with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which connected the Atlantic port to the vast agricultural markets of the Midwestern United States and Canada. (tripown.com)
  • INTRODUCTION: Influenza remains an important cause of hospitalizations in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • More lighting and refection devices on farm vehicles would decrease crashes involving those vehicles by more than 50 percent, according to a new study by the University of Iowa and the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health. (kcrg.com)
  • South Dakota State University adheres to AA/EEO guidelines in offering educational programs and services. (sdstate.edu)
  • We wanted to understand what happens when the range of a bee expands," says Margarita López-Uribe, a postdoctoral researcher at North Carolina State University and lead author of a paper describing the work. (ncsu.edu)
  • A report from the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at the University of California, Davis, published by UC Press, indicates that excess nitrogen in the state comes primarily from agriculture and fuel combustion. (waterworld.com)
  • According to a new study by North Carolina University, the practice of no-till farming can increase agricultural land value. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • Córdova earned a Bachelor of Engineering in agroindustry from Tecnica del Norte University, Ecuador, and a doctorate in soil science from Iowa State University. (unl.edu)
  • Before coming to Nebraska, Córdova worked as a project coordinator and postdoctoral research scientist with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. (unl.edu)
  • Iowa State University has been awarded two grants focused on professional development and education. (iastate.edu)
  • The Iowa State University partnership builds on two project grants. (iastate.edu)
  • Kansas State University. (baumaschinen-knell.de)
  • Stay informed with the latest news and updates from San Diego State University (SDSU) at SDSU Newscenter. (sdsu.edu)
  • Glen Broom taught public relations to thousands of students at San Diego State University, but around the world tens of thousands more have learned their trade under his guidance and expertise. (sdsu.edu)
  • The story was photographed by Dennis Chamberlin, a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist and an associate professor of journalism at Iowa State University, while Switchyard Media of Seattle produced the infographic. (civileats.com)
  • Establishing a field border or maintaining a fence row around a crop field or pasture is one way to improve habitats for wildlife in the agricultural landscape. (missouri.edu)
  • OCM hosts informative conferences and meetings and takes action through collaborative efforts to influence agricultural policy. (competitivemarkets.com)
  • In 2004, the Farm Bureau reiterated these collaborative sentiments, stating that although "the [new water quality mandates] weren't perfect," the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (CCRWQCB) had taken a "constructive approach" ( Kranz 2004 ). (ucanr.edu)
  • It works with federal and state lawmakers and enforcement agencies to make change through legislation, litigation, and education. (competitivemarkets.com)
  • The second grant, entitled, Advanced Agricultural Machinery Partnership Between Iowa State and TIIAME, focuses on partnership development and agricultural machinery systems engineering training. (iastate.edu)
  • This water contains salts, heavy metals, emulsified oil, and other organics that render it unsuitable for human or animal consumption, agricultural use, or possibly direct discharge offshore. (doe.gov)
  • Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the borough is conterminous with New York County, an original county of the state of New York. (tripown.com)
  • The firm boasts more than 80 attorneys that are licensed in 20 states, and primarily represent public and private companies, individuals, private. (vault.com)
  • He explains: "Dead zones begin when rivers carry nitrogen and phosphorous-based nutrients-primarily agricultural fertilizers-into the ocean. (civileats.com)
  • Fair STEC O157 outbreaks in the United States have been associated with ruminant contact, contaminated water, and contact with animal environments ( 2 , 5 , 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • However, water is an extremely valuable commodity in the arid western and midwestern states. (doe.gov)
  • Currently, around 37 percent of farms use no-till techniques across the US, including " strong adoption rates in the Northeast, the mid-Atlantic states and the Midwest," the study found. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • Iowa's nitrogen load has been accelerating despite more than $100 million spent by the federal and state governments to rein it in. (yale.edu)
  • The planned project grant outcomes are: (i) one oral research presentation per Uzbek participant, (ii) one academic writing artifact (paper, poster, grant proposal, or similar) per Uzbek participant, and (iii) improvement of Uzbek participants' research knowledge and practices (evaluated by the pre-post testing and/or interviews). (iastate.edu)
  • OBJECTIVE: Compare delivery room practices and outcomes of infants born at less than 32 weeks' gestation or less than 1,500 g who have plastic wrap/bag placement simultaneously during placental transfusion to those receiving plastic wrap/bag placement sequentially following placental transfusion. (bvsalud.org)
  • All of the Midwestern states studied required some level of marking, but none reached the "best practice" standards put forth by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. (kcrg.com)
  • The compilation of updated specifications and guidelines will provide a practical and valuable tool to be used by contractors and engineers to lessen the effects of frost boils in gravel roads throughout the state of Iowa. (thanospapanicolaou.com)
  • atrazine is commonly found in rainwater in the seasons following agricultural applications. (cdc.gov)
  • This study was designed to identify tractor operating practices among young adult agricultural workers and the influence of supervisors, peers, and parents on their safety behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers found that just a one-percent increase in no-till farming can equate to a $7.86-per-acre increase in land value in Midwestern states, where the study was focused. (farmingnewshubb.com)
  • Using a survey conducted in 2015, interviews and in-depth document review, this study assesses growers' trust of and communication with other agricultural groups and water quality regulatory agencies, specifically CCRWQCB. (ucanr.edu)
  • Researchers studied farm vehicle crashes in nine states to reach their conclusion. (kcrg.com)
  • Researchers say state laws or community ordinances could cut down on the number of crashes in Iowa. (kcrg.com)
  • To explore these questions, researchers looked at the squash bee ( Peponapis pruinosa ), which is indigenous to what is now central Mexico and the southwestern United States. (ncsu.edu)
  • For example, the researchers found that P. pruinosa first moved from central Mexico into what is now the midwestern United States approximately 5,000 years ago, before expanding to the East Coast some time later. (ncsu.edu)
  • OCM is a membership-based research and advocacy organization working for open and competitive markets and fair trade in America's food and agricultural sectors. (competitivemarkets.com)
  • That recognition motivated the Farm Bureau, a trusted agricultural organization, to become part of the conversations and solutions (farm advisor, personal communication, February 2013). (ucanr.edu)
  • and neoliberal policies that limit governments' abilities, both in Mexico and the United States, to respond to these widespread transformations. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • Over time, the Midwestern and Western farmer fell ever more deeply in debt to the banks that held their mortgages. (humanitiesweb.org)
  • The elections of 1890 brought the new party into power in a dozen Southern and Western states, and sent a score of Populist senators and representatives to Congress. (humanitiesweb.org)
  • Work is to be performed from a remote site, but residence in a midwestern, southern, or western state is preferred. (competitivemarkets.com)
  • Compare this to the 32″ - 36″ averaged in the same reporting period for eastern Iowa or the 35″ - 40″ received in western New York State. (colostate.edu)
  • Improving water quality in agricultural areas is contingent on a variety of factors, including landowners' and growers' decisions on land use and farming practices. (ucanr.edu)
  • The political context at the time - mounting cases of polluted drinking water, the passage of Senate Bill 390, which reasserted pressure on regional water boards to take more responsibility for comprehensive water control, and public frustration with polluted waterways - set the stage for a unique regulatory process in which agricultural interests sought to support water regulations and become more involved ( Kranz 2004 ). (ucanr.edu)
  • Health trumps politics," said Iowa State Senator David Johnson before taking the stage at a raucous rally in Des Moines last winter to support strengthening the state's water quality. (yale.edu)
  • The battle over Iowa's water had long been posed as one between rural and urban interests, until Johnson, whose district is one of the most thinly populated and heavily farmed in the state, came along. (yale.edu)
  • More than 750, or 58 percent , of the state's rivers and streams do not meet federal water quality standards and are designated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as too contaminated for swimming or consuming fish caught there - making a state once renowned for its lattice of waterways into a mess of inaccessible creeks, streams and lakes. (yale.edu)
  • Unlike riparian or littoral water rights established in eastern states based on ownership of the land along watercourses, Colorado's water laws evolved from the realities of mining and its needs. (colostate.edu)
  • The state is subdivided into seven water divisions, each with a Division Engineer and staff. (colostate.edu)
  • This has been driven either by natural factors (such as inadequate surface water supplies), or by misconceived policies (such as subsidized power tariffs for agricultural pumping). (thewaterchannel.tv)
  • Such beneficial use would significantly reduce injection costs associated with the current practice of disposing of produced water and provide a new source of purified water in what are often water-starved regions. (doe.gov)
  • The research, published in Environmental Research Letters , states that significant agricultural adaptation will be "necessary and inevitable" in the Central and Eastern United States. (newfoodmagazine.com)
  • It is organized into four areas of focus: research, practice, policy, and capacity building. (cdc.gov)
  • Additionally, her research and teaching programs strive to integrate agroecological principles, a deep understanding of biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology, and modeling to understand soil-plant-microbe interactions in important agricultural settings. (unl.edu)
  • Results corroborate other research - growers' trust of most regional agricultural groups was closely correlated with frequency of communication. (ucanr.edu)
  • Finally, this paper seeks to contribute to research on the living conditions and mental health of rural populations, and to promote territorial practices. (bvsalud.org)
  • Over time, these agricultural practices spread to the north and east. (ncsu.edu)
  • The plan was developed by NIOSH, in collaboration with tribes, tribal-serving organizations, academia, state and local health departments, and U.S. government agencies. (cdc.gov)
  • State fair fecal sampling targeted 60-70 each for market and breeding beef, market and breeding swine, and dairy cattle. (cdc.gov)
  • A combination of such techniques/ practices, or what is referred to as the 3R approach, has helped recharge groundwater resources and transform landscapes around the world. (thewaterchannel.tv)
  • This constitutional amendment would impose a 0.75 percent increase in the state sales-and-use tax for 10 years to be used for transportation purposes. (stlmag.com)
  • It is unfathomable that the state passes on tens of millions of dollars from out-of-state parties who use and damage its highways. (stlmag.com)