Market Journal: Livestock Regulations to Increase with Clean Water Act
May 9, 2008
On this week's Market Journal, Dave Cozad, deputy regional counsel, Environmental Protection Agency Region 7, visits with host Doug Jose about the goal of the Clean Water Act to make all water fishable and swimmable. States and the EPA are working together to set thresholds for nutrient levels.
Also on the program this week:
Dr. Drew Lyon named Fenster Professor of Dryland Agriculture
May 9, 2008
Dr. Drew Lyon, Extension Dryland Crops Specialist at the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff, has been named the first Fenster Professor of Dryland Agriculture.
Options for Drought-Depleted Pastures
May 9, 2008
It's decision time for ranchers whose pastures are suffering from drought.
Olsen, Ibach Receive CASNR Alumni Awards
May 9, 2008
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Alumni Association presented its Achievement Award to Keith Olsen, president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation, and its Service Award to Greg Ibach, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.
NDA Funds Second Round Of Riparian Vegetation Proposals
May 9, 2008
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) has awarded grants to five groupsto manage weeds and other overgrowth in sections of the Republican, North Platte, South Platte, and Platte rivers.