KHOI Local Talk host Greta Anderson interviews Craig Cox and Soren Rundquist of Environmental Working Group, which released a troubling report earlier this month documenting how, in the years 2011-2014, more acres in Iowa were taken out of conservation practices than were put in.
We explore the reasons farmers give for these changes, and how instituting a basic standard of care --i.e., regulation rather than voluntary, subsidized participation--could begin to clean up the polluted waters of the Midwest.
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Online Resources
- Full Environmental Working Group Report
- Basic Standard of Care
02/24/2016 Interview
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