Last last year, a report from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture attempted to quantify the impact of the agriculture and food sector within Arkansas.
Environmental advocates in Oklahoma want any proposed solutions to pollution from Arkansas to be more open to the public, speaking in the aftermath of a federal court ruling poultry litter puts too much phosphorus into the Illinois River.
Environmental advocates in Oklahoma want any proposed solutions to pollution from Arkansas to be more open to the public, speaking in the aftermath of a federal court ruling poultry litter puts too much phosphorus into the Illinois River.
It took almost 13 years for a federal court to finally rule that our state s poultry growers have been contributing significantly to the pollution of eastern Oklahoma s Illinois River watershed by regularly spreading poultry litter as fertilizer across its pastures.