A state decision to lend $2.5 million set aside for Kentucky agriculture to a Louisville company that manages coal waste from power plants raises several concerns...
As The Courier-Journal's James Bruggers reported, the board (of the Kentucky Agriculture Finance Corp.) approved the loan despite assurances from University of Kentucky soil and crop scientists that Kentucky soils are not deficient in sulfur and that adding sulfur to fields would be a waste of money for most Kentucky farmers.
(Agriculture Commissioner James) Comer, a former legislator who has said the Clean Air Act has left most Kentucky soils nutritionally deficient by reducing sulfur spread by smokestacks, told Bruggers that he doesn't take advice from "research universities," preferring to listen to "actual farmers and fertilizer dealers."
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
State loan raises troubling issues
An editorial from today's Herald-Leader:
