EPA Finds a New Way to Screw With Farmers

[Wifezilla]

Ok, you can't say an article is less biased and then link to the New York Times without making people snicker . Plus I already linked to that article a few posts back.

 

[Buster]

Ok, you can't say an article is less biased and then link to the New York Times without making people snicker .

I think the most telling thing about it is who is opposing it. That should tell you something right there.

 

[me&thegals]

Wifezilla--one of your first 3 links was to a NY Times article--maybe even the same one as Buster?

Buster--who are you talking about opposing it? The Pork Producers?

 

[Wifezilla]

It was...but I didn't characterize it as unbiased

 

[Wildsky]

They're probably worried about another Dust Bowl (as in the 1930's) and lets face it - that would be terrible.
Created by farmers who just want to keep plowing up the land with no regard to anything else.

(I haven't read the articles linked)

 

[Wifezilla]

It has nothing to do with top soil preservation. It's just about dust being kicked up.

 

[me&thegals]

It could have to do with both. My husband's no-till soybean fields will ALWAYS kick up loads of dust while combining---it is the dust from the dry bean plants being pulverized, then spat out the back end of the combine. Has nothing to do with topsoil.

OTOH, a farmer plowing amid fields of dust has everything to do with topsoil loss.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

I know! I know! Let's pave the farms . . . that'll get rid of the dust problem for good! (where is the smilie icon that shoots itself in the head?)

 

[2dream]

I know! I know! Let's pave the farms . . . that'll get rid of the dust problem for good! (where is the smilie icon that shoots itself in the head?)

What an excellent idea. Then we can starve, but we won't be gasping for our last breath due to dust problems.
Did you find that smilie yet?

WZ - I am guessing part of the plan with a tablespoon of incompetence minus the common sense. Add a bushel of stupidity to the recipe and you have our govenment at work.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

What an excellent idea. Then we can starve, but we won't be gasping for our last breath due to dust problems.
Did you find that smilie yet?

We don't have to starve!!! We can outsource the farming to third world countries!!! And it solves two problems at once since we won't have to worry about regulating pesticides either, because no one cares in those other countries. WOOT!