| Tipoffs for Orangeburg, South Carolina (Piedmont) Newsletter for Friday June 28, 2024 ( 2 items ) |
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Justice Dept.: Virginia Company and Owner Sentenced for Criminally Filling Wetlands
WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 27, 2024:
Boyd Farm LLC and its owner Frazier T. Boyd III were sentenced yesterday for criminally filling wetlands in Goochland and Louisa Counties, Virginia. Boyd Farm was sentenced to pay a fine of $300,000 and serve a year of probation for a felony violation of the Clean Water Act. Boyd was sentenced to 30 days home confinement and a year of probation.
At various times between 2017 and 2019, Boyd
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Virginia Farmers Hope for a Stretch of Rainy Weather as Moderate Drought Continues
RICHMOND, Virginia, June 28 -- The Virginia Farm Bureau issued the following news:
With "abnormally dry" weather persisting statewide, moderate drought conditions are stressing pasture and cropland within a swath of the western Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley, according to the Virginia Drought Monitor.
Rapid-onset droughts like this, sometimes referred to as "flash droughts," can cause significant agricultural economic impacts.
A few scattered showers are not enough to quench parched fields th
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