Tag Archives: industrial agriculture

Oak Leaf Tatters And Herbicides

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Paul Deaton

What to make of a study of the impact of herbicide drift from farming operations on oak trees? In a peer reviewed 2004 study at the University of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in Urbana, Ill., scientists … 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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Iowa Based Food Democracy Now! Joins Lawsuit Against Monsanto

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Trish Nelson

At Food Democracy Now! we believe that family farmers have a right to farm without threat and intimidation. We don’t think farmers should be sued because Monsanto’s patented genes from a neighbor’s field blow across their fence and contaminate their … Continue reading →

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