Inland Farms Hit Hard by Irene Across Carolinas and East
Irene battered inland farms with wind flood and salt spray causing near total losses for some tobacco growers in North Carolina and Virginia and flooding in New Jersey blueberries. Officials urged crop damage filings as farmers survey drownings and equipment sustains losses across the region.
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Keith Beavers
Mount Olive
Federal
North Carolina
Virginia
New Jersey
Agriculture
Tom Vilsack
Vilsack
Spencer Neale
Virginia Farm Bureau
Michigan
Rutgers Agriculture Experiment Station
Atlantic County
Gary Parlis
Paul Galletta
Atlantic Blueberry
Vermont
State Agency of Agriculture
New York
Hudson Valley
Long Island
Maurice Benton
Irene
Impresis herbicide case heads to court
A federal judge scheduled Sept 20 for a motion to require DuPont to notify owners and lawn pros how to preserve evidence of Impresis tree damage. The court action follows DuPont’s Aug 26 letter guiding recipients to report possible Impresis damage and the company stopping sales after damage to white pine and other trees.
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Detroit
DuPont
Michael McDermott
DuPont Professional Products
McDermott
Wilmington
Del
U.S. District Court
Delaware
California Governor opposes farmworker card-check bill
California Governor Jerry Brown reiterated opposition to the card-check measure to ease farmworker unionizing. He proposed compromise steps to curb grower interference, shorten delays in bargaining, and allow immediate reinstatement of workers fired during organizing drives, signaling a slower path to reform.
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Las Vegas
California
Jerry Brown
Brown
Senate
Darrell Steinberg
Pesticide exposure linked to prostate cancer in California study
USC researchers examined 173 older men with prostate cancer in Tulare Fresno and Kern counties. They traced residency and work sites from 1974 to 1999 and matched pesticide application data. Proximity within 500 yards to methyl bromide captan and other organochlorines correlated with higher cancer risk.
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Los Angeles
University of Southern California
California
Central Valley
State Cancer Registry
Tulare
Fresno
Kern
Myles Cockburn
USC
Keck School of Medicine
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