Tag Archives: CAFOs in Iowa

Stop The CAFOs! Come To The JFAN Annual Meeting!

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Trish Nelson

JFAN ANNUAL MEETING! STOP THE CAFOS! How the Buffalo National River Did It (And how Iowa can do better) Thursday, October 16 7:00 – 8:30 pm Via Zoom – Register Here GORDON WATKINS President and Co-founder Buffalo River Watershed Alliance … Continue reading →

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Conference On Industrial Farm Animal Production The Environment and Public Health

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Trish Nelson

Wow! Forwarding this information from JFAN (Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors).   Check out the speakers list. This promises to be an amazing conference. Read on and watch the video below for complete information.  All registrants will receive a copy … Continue reading →

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What Is The Impact Of Livestock Consolidation On Rural Iowa?

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Trish Nelson

Bigger Is Not Better: Rural Communities In the Wake of Livestock Consolidation Online Event by Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. – JFAN Public · Registration link https://bit.ly/3tD6xIr Thursday, November 9 at 7 p.m. The livestock industry is heavily consolidated. … Continue reading →

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DNR Moving Forward With Executive Order Revision of CAFO Regulations

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Trish Nelson

Important update about CAFO regulation (sounds more like deregulation) from the website of Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors – JFAN jfaniowa.org by Diane Rosenberg | Executive Director The DNR is now continuing its revision of Chapter 65 under the direction … Continue reading →

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Free Webinar: How Will The Farm Bill Affect Iowa?

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Trish Nelson

Upcoming event sponsored by Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors Find out how the Farm Bill supports CAFOs and industrial agriculture with farm bill policy experts Joe Maxwell and Aaron Lehman. Plus negotiations underway to shift the balance of funding to … Continue reading →

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Weigh In On Factory Farm Construction In Your Community

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from CCI: Happy New Year! That means it’s the time of year for County Supervisors to vote on, pass and submit the Master Matrix resolution to the Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) by January 31 in order … Continue reading →

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Can Citizens Stop A CAFO?

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Trish Nelson

From our inbox here is an update from CCI Issue Update Neighbors band together to oppose hog confinement – get an early win. A group of neighbors in rural Howard County banded together to share their concerns and express opposition … Continue reading →

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Do Iowa Laws Exist Solely To Rubber Stamp Livestock Industry Interests?

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from Iowa Environmental Council: At IEC, it is our job to be watchdogs at the legislature, with local governments, and rule-making agencies, monitoring whether their decisions make Iowa a better place to live, work, and explore. In 2021, … Continue reading →

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New Polling Suggests Iowans Support CAFO Moratorium

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Trish Nelson

A Rodger Routh video “Last year a proposal was put forth in the Iowa legislature to increase oversight of CAFOs and to place a moratorium or ban on construction of new CAFOs and expansion of existing CAFOs. 53% of all … Continue reading →

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What Is A CAFO?

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Trish Nelson

Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. – JFAN This is the first of five videos in a JFAN interview series with Dr. John Ikerd about CAFOs, Iowa’s #1 problem.  Visit Dr. Ikerd’s website here:  johnikerd.com/ “The operation runs like a … Continue reading →

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