Tag Archives: big ag in Iowa

Carbon Capture Pipeline Boondoggle

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Trish Nelson

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Austin Frerick Asks Us To Imagine A New Vision For Agriculture

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Trish Nelson

Austin Frerick is running for Iowa Senate in district 37.  This was in an email asking for volunteers first and if you can’t volunteer a campaign donation. But what I appreciate about Austin is when he asks you for something … Continue reading →

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Can Iowa’s Altered Landscape Ever Be Restored?

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Follow this blog greatplainsaction.org “We are a collective of Indigenous organizers of the Great Plains working to resist and Indigenize colonial institutions, ideologies, and behaviors. Our homelands are located in the vast grassland of Turtle Island, situated between the Rocky … Continue reading →

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Breaking The Grip of Corporate Ag on Rural Iowa

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Trish Nelson

Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, Inc. P.O. Box 811, Fairfield, IA 52556 jfan@lisco.com • http://www.jfaniowa.org • 641-209-6600 Award-winning agricultural journalist Alan Guebert on Breaking Free of Corporate Ag – JFAN Annual Meeting Factory farming has a stranglehold on rural Iowa, … Continue reading →

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“That Family Doesn’t Matter” – Life Next to A Hog Confinement

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Trish Nelson

“I didn’t even put in my garden this year.” You will need ear buds or headphones to listen to this video but it is incredible what you will hear. This woman describes stink so bad they can’t go outside, but … 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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Is The Drought of Nuisance Lawsuits Against CAFOs About To End?

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Trish Nelson

http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/activists-hope-to-curb-confinements/1070162?cid=2401412 The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts was full of energetic people Wednesday for the annual meeting of Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors. The lower bowl and much of the second deck of the auditorium were packed with … Continue reading →

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