Several years ago I was involved with a farming systems comparison project in Central Illinois. The project looked at tile drainage from three different farming systems — conventional, sustainable (reduced tillage and chemical rates) and organic. The water samples drawn from the tiles draining the organic field showed something interesting — trace amounts of Atrazine. [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 8, 2009
Herbicide maker blames farmers for resistent weeds
Two nights ago on ABC World News with Charlie Gibson, the evening’s broadcast ended with a feature on a “super-weed” threatening agriculture. The problem is pigweed down in Arkansas cotton fields. There were amazing images of giant pigweeds growing thick and tall in the midst of a struggling cotton field. The worried farmers describe how [...]
October 8, 2009
More good stuff happening in illinois
Great NYT feature on an interesting Illinois farm…
The Spence Farm near Fairbury. Just one more example of the new face of agriculture — one that feeds people, not international corporate food processing conglomerates.
