environment

People of Zumbrota, residents and farmers alike, protested at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency headquarters in St. Paul. They claim the agency released inaccurate reviews of the possible environmental impacts of what they call a factory hog farm in the area...

Last week just before Thanksgiving, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the renewable fuels standards for 2017. The increase in the renewable fuels standard was larger than what the EPA had indicated earlier, and larger than the corn and bean market anticipated...

George Rhem, the Discover Farms coordinator for the Minnesota Agriculture Water Resources Center, called me the other day and asked me to help get the word out to farmers about free water testing at Farmfest in Redwood Falls. Last year the Minnesota Agriculture Water Resources Center tested well and tile line water for nitrates...

We may see a tie of the record high temperature for this date (86 degrees) or higher, and the winds will be up so there is a high risk of wildfires breaking out in southern Minnesota. A Red Flag warning is in effect for central Minnesota...

Paul Pieper, who is the supervisor of recycling and hazardous waste for Rice County's environmental services was on today's AM Minnesota program. It is amazing the things we can recycle now. Not that many years ago we burned what we could and threw the rest in a big hole...

George Rhem, the Discover Farms Coordinator for the Minnesota Agriculture Resource Center, gave me a call the other day and asked me if I would help get the word to farmers about a new blog on water quality. If you go to agwaterexchange...

Dustin Denison, president of Minnesota Community Solar, joins us to discuss the incredible explosion seen currently in the solar industry. Denison says the industry in Minnesota is growing at a 3,500 percent rate. The solar energy expert believes this growth is due in large part to passage of the Clean Energy Omnibus Act of 2013...

The Dakota Rice County Corn and Soybean Growers and the Cannon River Watershed Partnership will be sponsoring a Buffer Proposal Forum on Monday, April 6, from 1:30-4 p.m. The forum will be held at Legvold Farms, 5103 315th St. W., Northfield...