Yearly Archives: 2000

Dennis T. Avery They May Not Harvest The Usual Bumper Crop of Government Cash In The Years Ahead CHURCHVILLE, Va.–For the New Year, farmers looking to Washington will see a new president, George W. Bush, the first female secretary of … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Thanks To Technological Advances In Farming, We Can Both Feed The World’s People And Take Care of the Environment CHURCHVILLE, Va.–We are told the baby Jesus was born in a stable because there was no room for … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery A Growing World That Wants To Both Preserve Habitats And Feed Inself Will Require Biotech Food CHURCHVILLE, Va.–A few days ago, a panel of science advisers for the Environmental Protection Agency refused to recommend human-use approval for … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, Va — India’s Vandana Shiva, one of the world’s most prominent opponents of genetically engineered crops, recently took part in a demonstration against Rice-Tec, a plant-breeding company in Alvin, Texas. Looking out at Rice-Tec’s experimental field, … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery An Ambitious Autopsy Program in New York Finds That Modern Pesticides Aren’t the Culprit in Bird Deaths CHURCHVILLE, Va.–New evidence from New York state shows that modern pesticides aren’t killing off our bird populations. The fear of … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Given The Atmosphere Surrounding Biotech Crops, Aventis Should Not Have Accepted the EPA’s Feed-Only Approval of StarLink Corn CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Why did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offer any approval at all for StarLink corn if it thought … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery In This Era Of Parents Holding Jobs No One Understands, It’s No Wonder We Get Nostalgic Over The Farmily Farm CHURCHVILLE, Va.–My granddaughter, at 18 months of age, demands to feed the horses and chickens on our … Continue reading →

Richard A. Halpern Earlier this year, when EPA Administrator Carol Browner was refining a sweeping new clean water rule, she said it would finally enable us, twenty-eight years after passage of the Clean Water Act, to “finish the job of … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery CHURCHVILLE, Va. — Chinese peasants and today’s organic farmers have long shared an important idea: We can’t afford to waste our wastes. Today, that includes “biosolids”–residue from sewage treatment plants. Some of my neighbors are nervous about … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery American Farmers Could Double Their Exports If Farm Trade Opened Up With India And China CHURCHVILLE, Va. – The presidential debates finally got around to farm policy, and we discovered Vice President Al Gore has moved sharply … Continue reading →