Non-agricultural groups are increasingly challenging agriculture as a polluter of the environment. Policy responses to findings that groundwater in some cases is contaminated with farm chemicals demonstrate that there are limits to good will towards farmers. Society is prepared to socially...

In the second quarter issue of CHOICES, William Reilly focused on environmental and health risk, and how these risks can be assessed and reduced. In this concluding part of the Batie/Reilly interview the former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discusses his views on a...

This article was stimulated by a 1997 American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting preconference designed by Batie and Ervin. The authors felt that there was considerable interest and activity in business-led environmental management (also caLLed corporate environmental...