From Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors (JFAN) :
Two different farming families share what it took to transform their CAFOs into two, completely different independent, sustainable farming operations.
Tim, Deleana and Curt Roseland, owners of the Roseland Family Farm discussed how and why they retrofitted three CAFO buildings and built a series of hoop houses to raise hogs for Niman Ranch. Tanner Faaborg, founder and manager of 1100 Farm talks about how he converted his family’s former 2200-head CAFO growing hogs for Iowa Select into a specialty mushroom farm.
Ron Mardesen, Niman Ranch farmer, mentor and spokesperson, shares the findings of a 2019 Iowa State University report on how much Niman Ranch’s independent livestock producers contribute to Iowa’s economy.
Kara Shannon, Director of Farm Animal Welfare Policy at the ASPCA, gives a brief overview and status report of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act being negotiated in the Farm Bill that could hurt farmers like the Roselands and Mardesen.
An audience Question and Answer session followed the presentations.
Introduction
The Roseland Family
Ron Mardesen
Tanner Faaborg
Jocelyn Engman
Kara Shannon
Question and Answer Session…
Transcript available here
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“Excellent program tonight! Exciting to see positive outcomes for those interested in local, healthy foods.”
“This has been uplifting and exhilarating!”
“Thank you all for this very informative discussion”
“Excellent, hopeful discussion!”
These are some of the enthusiastic reactions of people attending the JFAN Annual Meeting.
This meeting provided a vision of what Iowa could be.
Please share with your family and friends!
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Blog For Iowa 
Thank you for featuring this. I’ve read some of the moaning and groaning by the CAFO industry about how Iowans are ignorant about the wonderfulness that is CAFO pork production, and how Iowans need to learn more.
Actually, Big Pig is very lucky that the Iowa public is still so ignorant. If Iowans really understood the huge extent to which Big Pig forces the costs of its damage onto the Iowa public, the Iowa public would not be happy.
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