Farmer Andy McElmurray inspects a dead patch of a field he owns, Monday, Oct. 15, 2007, in Hephzibah, Ga. McElmurray says the patches are from fertilizer that contained industrial sludge given to him by the city of Augusta.
It was a farm idea with a big payoff and supposedly no downside: ridding lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer. Then last week, a federal judge ordered the Agriculture Department to compensate a farmer whose land was poisoned by sludge from the waste treatment plant here. His cows had died by the hundreds.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - It was a farm idea with a big payoff and supposedly no downside: ridding lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer.
The program is still in effect. Alaimo ordered the government to compensate dairy farmer Andy McElmurray because 1,730 acres he wanted to plant in corn and cotton to feed his herd was poisoned.
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Kei Igawa retired all six hitters he faced in the Yankees? 2-0 victory on Tuesday, throwing his first three pitches for balls and then 14 of his last 16 for strikes.