Tagged Stories: "agriculture"
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Fewer incentives, boost in commodity prices mean decline in on-farm forest buffer restoration
October 4, 2012Streamside trees are critical to the Bay, but planting rates continue to drop.
Read storyBay groups receive $2.5 million to improve water quality trading infrastructure
August 24, 2012New programs encourage farmers to put pollution credits on the market.
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Watershed Wednesday: ECO (Engaged Community Offshoots) City Farms
August 22, 2012An urban farm cultivates crops and community on just one acre of land.
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Sustainable farming in Lancaster County, Pa.
August 1, 2012Dairy farmer Luke Brubaker's sustainable agriculture practices ensures his land will stay in the family for generations to come.
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Md. farmers plant record acreage of pollution-reducing cover crops
February 22, 2012Farmers planted nearly 430,000 acres of cover crops in fall 2011, the largest planting in Md. history.
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Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Forest Champion keeps it in the family
December 15, 2011When Susan Benedict talks about her forest – a 200,000 acre property in Centre County, Pennsylvania -- she talks about family.
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NRCS provides $850,000 to reduce pollution from manure
August 23, 2011The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will receive nearly $850,000 to help farmers convert manure to energy.
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Maryland farmers to plant record cover crop acreage in 2011
August 17, 2011More than 1,700 Md. farmers will plant 550,000 acres of winter grains this fall through the state's Cover Crop Program.
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Ask a Scientist: Can poultry farmers use biodigesters to turn manure into a fertilizer that could re
May 5, 2011What do farms, manure, and a developing technology for creating fertilizer have to do with the Chesapeake Bay?
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USDA report shows agricultural conservation practices helping reduce pollution to Chesapeake Bay
March 16, 2011A USDA study shows that conservation practices have reduced nutrient and sediment pollution to the Bay and its rivers.
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