Category Archives: Farming

Calling All Pipeline Fighters For Urgent Action Tuesday

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Trish Nelson

A note from Ed Fallon: Dear Friends – I spoke with State Rep. Bobby Kaufmann today on my talk show and he announced big news on the Eminent Domain Bill: Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 28th at 12:00 noon in Room 22 … Continue reading →

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Iowa Farmer To Pipeline Representative: “Go To Hell”

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Trish Nelson

“I’ve worked all my life for what we’ve got.”  She points north and east, naming one neighbor after another who is against the pipeline. “I hope everyone is as mad as I am, because to tell you the truth, I … Continue reading →

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Iowa Pipeline Walk Uncovers New Hero

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Trish Nelson

“All we wanted was to have the house fixed.”  –  Kenneth Larkin Iowa Pipeline Walk: Day Nineteen Posted on March 24, 2015 by Ed Fallon Monday, March 23, 2015 – Cambridge, Iowa Click here to go to original post at … Continue reading →

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Farm Bureau’s Right-Winginess Exposed

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Trish Nelson

Farm Bureau Exposed https://www.scribd.com/embeds/248584726/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true

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Iowans For Sherrie Taha

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Paul Deaton

IOWA CITY– The fact that Sherrie Taha, candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, supports reduction of food imports to Iowa only makes sense. “Rather than import the bulk of the food we eat from outside of our state, we need … Continue reading →

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Iowans Censored By Corporate Owned “Local” Newspaper

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Trish Nelson

The editorial page of your local newspaper is where conversations can occur about local issues and a place where information can be shared neighbor to neighbor.  Local newspapers  are (or should be) the remedy to information polluters like Fox News … Continue reading →

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Resisting CAFOs In Iowa – JFAN

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Paul Deaton

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors (JFAN) is a nonprofit community organization composed of rural and town residents, and traditional family farmers. Their common concern is to stop the growth of CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) factories in Jefferson … Continue reading →

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Feeding The World–Iowa-Style

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Paul Deaton

Iowa Can’t Feed the World; Local Producers Can’t Either The frequent jeremiad of big agriculture is about propping them up so Iowa farmers can feed the world. Political speeches at the recent opening of a first of its kind biorational … Continue reading →

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Hodge-Podge: Branstad For Bishop!

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Dave Bradley

I understand Terry Branstad is a Roman Catholic. I never knew this because I never cared before. As one who truly believes that the separation of Church and State must as wide as a galaxy it really irked me to … Continue reading →

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Iowa Agriculture Won't Feed The World

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Paul Deaton

Some of us are not over replacing James Harlan with Norman Borlaug in the National Statuary Hall. Give me a Free Soiler, abolitionist and friend of Abraham Lincoln over agriculture’s “greatest spokesperson” to represent the State of Iowa any day. … Continue reading →

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