How To Stop Farm Runoff From Spreading Dead Zones
Clean water is vital to sustaining life. Why aren't we protecting it?
Articles by Anne Schechinger
Taxpayers’ Bill for Farm Subsidies: $30 Billion by 2018
The savings to taxpayers from the so-called reform of federal farm subsidies are turning out to be mythical – while cuts to programs to help farmers protect the environment are all too real.
Farm Nitrogen Pollution Damage Estimated at $157 Billion Yearly
Nitrogen from fertilizers and manures washed off farmland costs Americans $157 billion a year in damages to human health and the environment.
Grasslands Go Under the Plow in the Prairie Pothole Region
An article in the May 27 edition of Harvest Public Media, an online news outlet devoted to news about agriculture, amounts to first-hand evidence of the destruction of the iconic Prairie Pothole...
Voluntary Programs to Reduce Farm Run-off Still Aren’t Working
A new analysis in Choices Magazine shows that voluntary agricultural pollution programs still aren't working.
Boondoggle: “Prevented Planting” Insurance Plows Up Wetlands, Wastes $Billions
A new EWG report released this week pulls back the curtain on the billions of taxpayer dollars that get wasted every year through the “prevented planting” federal crop insurance program that...
No Doubt About it: Price Tag Gets Ever Higher for New Gold-Plated Farm Subsidies
In a recent article in Politico, reporter David Rogers took issue with estimates of per-acre subsidy payments that growers could receive under the Agriculture Risk Coverage farm subsidy program...
Not Your Average Policy – Farmers Make Money Off Heavily Subsidized Crop “Insurance”
Buried in a recently released U.S. Government Accountability Office report is staggering evidence that the federal government's crop insurance program serves as another source of farm business income...
Crop Subsidies Soar under 2014 Farm Bill “Reforms”
The 2014 farm bill will prove to be the most expensive ever thanks to new subsidies Congress added on top of the already costly crop insurance program, researchers at the University of Missouri said...
New Crop Insurance Programs Lavish Supersized Payouts on Farmers
A new report shows that some farmers could receive larger payments under newly implemented crop insurance programs than they would have through the discredited -- and now defunct -- direct payments...
