Pesticide Use on School Grounds

Heard from the Hill
NY Senate Bans Applying Pesticides to School Playing Fields
From April 21, 2010 Syracuse Post Standard (NY), by Delen Goldberg
New York recently approved a measure to ban pesticides on school and day care playing fields, meaning grounds superintendents will have to begin using more organic ways to care for grass.
Many schools in the state use pesticides on athletic fields to kill bugs, pests and weeds. A number of scientific studies have shown that exposure to pesticides can increase children's risk for cancer, exacerbate asthma and trigger seizures.
http://t.ymlp171.com/uqqheazamemaiahhhmaaaehes/click.php

Absolutely ridiculous once again. Guess how this would work in Florida with fire ants and sod destroying insect pests. I guess that pouring on the "green" solutions will be so much safer and so much better for the kids. Liquid manure is always nice to have them play in.

Click the link and read some of the comments from the normal people and then laugh at the ones from the mentally challenged lefties.

Anyone working with today's pesticides knows the ultra low concentrations, product chemisty, scientific testing, and registrant requirements for a labelled proper use equals miniscule possibilities of secondary exposures, if any at all. It is horrifying to watch the creep from common sense into liberal agenda and the continued effort at legislation based on opinion only with no scientific approach. While the taxpayers burdens grow and budgets remain in flux this type of agenda is promulgated.

Happy Birthday to Elizabeth on Saturday, April 24th! She will be 29.

Lisa's Son's Song Vote

If you have a sec, would you please go to this Magic link and vote for
Lisa's son Matt's playoff theme song? They've already picked a winner but
are asking people to vote for their favorite from among the top 12.
They're ThaPrestige - the third from the bottom. Hoping he'll win!
Voting ends tonight.


http://www.nba.com/magic/news/themesong_vote_041910.html

New watermelon queen looks forward to promoting agriculture

The 2010 national watermelon queen is Jessica Lauren Southard, a 20-year-old University of Florida sophomore.Southard, who is from Bronson, a small city near Gainesville, held a number of titles including Newberry watermelon queen before she won the national title in March.Like many of the strawberry festival queens, Southard has a love for agriculture.The high school valedictorian and class president was active in FFA and showed feeder steers at an area livestock show. She is majoring in agriculture communications at the university.She is the first Florida watermelon queen to win the national title in 13 years.Since taking the crown, she has been busy promoting watermelons at conventions and trade shows around the United States and beyond. She also has traveled toelementary schools, educating students about basic nutrition and the fundamentals of agriculture, tying in the connection of watermelon.Southard calls her role "an amazing opportunity."

Farmers Celebrate Earth Day

In celebration of Earth Day, the producers of “America’s Heartland” said they wanted to share some of their favorite stories about people they’ve met who are true environmental stewards. “For them, it’s more than just good business – it’s what they believe in. View our very special Earth Day Webisode here! We’ve met a lot of farm and ranch families.Each one is unique, but almost all of them have a few things in common. They’re incredibly hard-working; they’re very good businesspeople; and most important, they share an abiding love of the land.”
The America’s Heartland Earth Day Webisode includes the following four stories:
· Adam's Ranch: 82 year old Florida rancher Bud Adams is excited about cattle and conservation. The Adams Cattle Ranch is famous for its beef, but Bud is also well known as an award winning photographer. His work has captured life on the ranch as well as the dramatic environment in which he lives and works.
· Carbon Capture: Global warming is an issue that’s generated heated debate around the world. Now researchers at Kansas State University are proposing that those in agriculture could play a major role in reducing carbon emissions by expanding their use of “no-till” farming.
· Harvest & Heritage: Innovation is at the heart of modern agriculture. For one farm family in Washington State, innovation is also a part of how they view production in the total picture of “sustainable” agriculture.The Stemilt family is famous for its produce and for its practices that protect the environment.
· Life Choices: While Jen Johnson’s Ivy League education provides her with opportunities that could take her anywhere in the world, she’s chosen to continue her life as a cattle rancher. Working with the Nature Conservancy, Jen and her family have instituted changes on their Colorado ranch that are proving beneficial to the environment.

WLI News

Class VIII nominations are on the way. The alumni need to be thinking about their lists.

Also. Why is it so quiet on here?

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Cows absolved of causing global warming with nitrous oxide

Cows absolved of causing global warming with nitrous oxide
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7564682/Cows-absolved-of-causing-global-warming-with-nitrous-oxide.html

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