Agriculture

Muddied Waters on Mississippi River Project

Ol Man River just keeps rollin along, but around this magnificent resource swirls much controversy. The waters of the Mississippi River may be muddy, but the politics are just as murky.

Oceans Commission Hears About Reducing Nitrogen Levels - September 23, 2002

Dr. Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, will testify before the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy at a hearing held in Chicago on September 24, 2002.

Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quantity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin

A research agenda for assessing water quantity issues for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin system

Myth: The current midwest crop system is economically sustainable

Fact sheet addressing the myth that the current midwest crop system is economically sustainable

Myth: The current midwest crop system is economically sustainable

Fact sheet addressing the myth that the current midwest crop system is economically sustainable

Antimicrobial Use in Animal Feed: An Ecological and Public Health Problem

Antibiotics arguably constitute one of the most important medical discoveries of the last century. Unfortunately, many antibiotics now are rapidly losing effectiveness as bacteria increasingly acquire resistance to multiple medicines. Routine feeding of antibiotics to animals raised for food promotes overuse and is one of the key drivers contributing to antibiotic resistance.

Getting the Dirt on What's in Your Fertilizer

Because hazardous waste is legally “recycled” as fertilizer and spread on farmland and sold in garden centers to unsuspecting home gardeners, IATP published this factsheet explaining what soil testing is, what the labels reveal and the issue with dioxins and heavy metals in fertilizer.

Is U.S Farm Policy All Wrong? A Chorus of Critics Thinks So

Economists Fault Agricultural Subsidies as a Sop to Relatively Well-Off Farmers Wall Street Journal | August 19, 2002 | By Scot Kilman, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Towards World Water Justice: Some Practical Steps Towards Equitable and Sustainable Water

Large sections of the civil society are opposed to the current paradigm propagated by the international water establishment. This paradigm, through its promotion of multinational led privatization and supply-oriented water management strategies in general, will further worsen the condition of water-poor peoples and of the ecosystem.

Kansas Cotton Succeeds Despite Severe Drought

The Wichita Eagle | By PHYLLIS JACOBS GRIEKSPOOR | August 14, 2002 HEADLINE: BYLINE: The Wichita Eagle BODY: White blooms are showing up in the tops of cotton fields across the cotton-growing regions of south-central and west-central Kansas. And the crop as a whole is looking good, gin managers say.