by Matt Ball on January 24, 2010
Insurance hasn’t been an option for herders in Northern Kenya, because the insurance companies didn’t want to go to the expense to justify claims by traveling great distances to count dead animals in the cases of drought related deaths. Satellite imagery is now being deployed to assess pasture health and to pay out claims if [...]
by Matt Ball on July 14, 2008
A federal judge halted a Bush administration plan to use grass on land enrolled in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program to feed livestock. The plan had enrolled 4,000 owners of conservation program lands who were going to be allowed to cut grass for hay, which isn’t allowed in the conservation agreement. The [...]
