Mining & Agriculture
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Current
Agrichemical companies power up genetically modified seeds
The next generation of engineered seeds will escalate herbicide spraying, with potentially large environmental consequences.
by Danielle Venton, Nov 26, 2012 -
Sidebar
Resistant weeds through history
A timeline of genetic modification from the 1950s onward.
by Danielle Venton, Nov 25, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
The "truth" about organic food
Organic food is better for us than food grown on farms using pesticides, hormones or antibiotics. Here's why.
by Ari LeVaux, Sep 27, 2012 -
Letters
Learning from the opposition
by Felice Pace, May 27, 2012 -
Current
Recycling diesel emissions for farm fertilizer?
Canadian farmer Gary Lewis, fed up with the failures of synthetic fertilizer, has invented a system called Bio-Agtive Emissions Technology, a tractor add-on that recycles diesel emissions into fertilizer.
by Marian Lyman Kirst, May 23, 2012 -
Multimedia
There's (still) gold in them thar hills
Soaring prices are driving a new gold rush -- among mining behemoths and small-time prospectors.
by Cally Carswell, May 21, 2012 -
Current
Retirees join environmentalists in fighting Arizona copper mine
The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen Valley, Ariz., are determined to stop a giant copper mine.
by Kari Lydersen, May 18, 2012 -
Feature
Land ownership on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
by High Country News, Apr 15, 2012 -
Current
Sodbusting farmers plow up the Northern Plains prairie
The biofuels "corn bubble" and other financial incentives encourage farmers to plow up native grassland in the sensitive Northern Plains prairie potholes ecosystem; government policies don't help.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Mar 19, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
A moral issue confronts industrial farmers
Farmers in Nebraska are feeling the pressure from groups that demand better treatment for animals on factory farms.
by Pete Letheby, Mar 15, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
Saying good-bye to the ranch
Four families cooperate on conservation easements in order to save a huge ranch in Colorado from development.
by Kerry Brophy Lloyd, Mar 13, 2012 -
Writers on the Range
The education of an oyster farmer
If you want to run a successful oyster farm, you need to develop a taste for eating raw oysters.
by Lissa James, Feb 08, 2012 -
Letters
Viva la revolución!
by Michael Powers, Feb 05, 2012 -
Letters
Small dairies raise big questions
by Michelle Schmidtke, DVM, Jan 22, 2012 -
Uncommon Westerners
Raymond Ansotegui and the art of artificially inseminating cattle
The "overeducated cowboy" Raymond Ansotegui roams the West in the "Shaggin' Wagon," artificially inseminating cattle with the help of friends and family.
by Seonaid B. Campbell, Jan 06, 2012






