Rural Iowans cope with smell of hogs
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Mayor Kent Forbes has learned a hard truth about small-town life in Iowa: Sometimes it stinks.
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By RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press writer  A bill that would prohibit large livestock farms within 2 miles around schools, cities and towns drew criticism Tuesday from a state agricultural official and support from residents who said dust and odors from the farms make them ill.
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A shortage of natural gas besets the state's most populous area. In rural outposts, energy costs spike.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 11--Soon after residents of Arrow Rock began to network with other activists to try stopping a large pig farm planned two miles outside their historic town, they realized their situation was not unique.
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Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs Â by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
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KOUTS, Ind.  -- The quiet country life can turn into a pressure cooker of stress at harvest time as farmers push themselves to their limits, agricultural experts say...
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By Blackwell Thomas  SPRINGFIELD - A plan to change how septic tanks are inspected in Illinois has some rural lawmakers raising a stink.
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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  May 29--WESTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY, Near Cheney -- On the banks of the Ninnescah, Don Distler walks near the river, noting the signs of wildlife -- and sometimes the lack of it.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 19--MANATEE -- A 47-year-old Riverview man was killed early Monday when his motorcycle struck a wild hog in north Manatee County.
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In 28 years of raising chickens, Virgil Shockley has had his share of worries, from bird disease to pollution. But nothing prepared him for the latest concern sweeping the poultry industry: Local farms could be deemed terrorist targets by the U.S. government.
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By JOHN DOBBERSTEIN World Staff Writer  Natural methods slow to catch on in Oklahoma   Stubbornness drove Sam Jorgenson into organic farming.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 24--A large-scale hog production business in Forest River, N.D., has  received a $71,000 grant from the North Dakota Agricultural Products  Utilization Commission.
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Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats.
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While environmentalists applaud some measures, farmers are concerned about financial curbs.
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By Jane Mcbride, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Dec. 13--Allergy patients who rush inside to escape the irritants and pollutions found in hyper-moist Southeast Texas air could be shutting themselves into a toxic box.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A family was startled when they were confronted by masked intruders. But it wasn't burglars Tina Tavernie found in her home. It was two 15-pound raccoons.  Tavernie, 33, was home with her three children Saturday evening when they heard noises upstairs.