"Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations"
"Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois."
Source: Reuters, 09/27/2011
Natural Resources
"Gas Wells on Public Land Get Federal Scrutiny"
"The U.S. Department of the Interior is reviewing whether any of the 175 Marcellus Shale gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania state forests or other permitted or planned well developments on publicly owned land violates a 1964 federal land conservation law."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 09/26/2011
"Dam Removal Begins, And Soon the Fish Will Flow"
"Port Angeles, Wash. — In a deep turquoise pool in a gorge of steep granite and thick Douglas fir, dozens of salmon swam fitfully. Swirling and slow, they made their way up one side of the riverbed, only to run into the steep concrete face of Elwha Dam — the formidable barrier that for nearly 100 years has cut off most of the Elwha River from the salmon that traditionally populated it."
Source: LA Times, 09/19/2011
"Rare Earth Prices To Stay High As China Extends Crackdown"
"Excess exports from China's rare earth industry kept prices artificially low for years, and it was now 'unrealistic' to expect them to fall back to previous levels as Beijing reins in the sector, a senior industry official said on Thursday."
Source: Des Moines Register, 09/16/2011
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