UK farmers face disaster as 'perfect storm' strikes

Farming faces a perfect storm. Appalling weather – 2012 was the second wettest year on record in England – has coincided with disease in livestock, including bovine TB and Schmallenberg in sheep, which causes birth defects.

"Fears of British Super-Drought After Record Low Rainfall in Winter," UK Guardian Reports | ThinkProgress

[Joe Romm, Feb. 15, 2012] Heat and aridity together make for increasingly brutal global-warming-type droughts

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Chesapeake bay: Skeptics abound as Md. promotes poultry waste-to-energy scheme -- 03/15/2013 -- www.eenews.net

Some see the plan creating new headaches. Farmers are fretting about what it might do to the fertilizer market, and environmentalists see it turning a water pollution problem into air pollution.

"It's another avoidance technique," said Scott Edwards, co-director of Food & Water Watch's justice project. "It's not clean energy. Anytime you're burning waste, to call that part of our renewable clean energy portfolio is a huge mistake."