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Diane Rosenberg
Oct 2, 20143 min read
JFAN President Jim Rubis Retiring; David E. Sykes Appointed New JFAN President
Founding Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. (JFAN) board member and president Jim Rubis announced his retirement from the JFAN...
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Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
Aug 8, 20143 min read
What’s Going On in Southeast Iowa? Fairfield Weekly Reader
Throughout Southeast Iowa, hog production is ramping up. Favorable market conditions are driving expansion throughout Iowa, and Southeast...
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Diane Rosenberg
Nov 23, 20134 min read
Coalition Notifies Iowa Factory Farm of Intent to File Clean Water Act Lawsuit over Repeated Manure
The sow facility, located in Van Buren County, Iowa near the Des Moines River, is one of the largest factory farms in Iowa, and annually pro
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Diane Rosenberg
Feb 18, 20131 min read
KK Finishers Denied
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources denied the second attempt of CAFO owner Ryan Robertson to expand KK Finishers, a 2480-head hog...
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Diane Rosenberg
Jun 15, 20122 min read
JFAN Distributes 900+ Books on Livestock Production to Policymakers, Others Throughout State
Over 900 educational books on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) were donated this month to state and local officials,...
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Diane Rosenberg
Sep 1, 20103 min read
DIANE WILSON: Making Corporations Accountable – October 5 JFAN Annual Meeting
Award-winning Environmental Activist and CodePink Co-founder; Featured in acclaimed 2008 Documentary Texas Gold When Diane Wilson...
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Diane Rosenberg
Mar 10, 20103 min read
Pleasant Plain Lawsuit Settles
Twenty-five people are suing Mr. Kaska and his company JL Pork for building and operating a hog confinement facility close to their homes. T
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Diane Rosenberg
Jul 9, 20092 min read
CAFOs Breed More Than Hogs
There has been much speculation that Swine Flu, renamed Influenza A (H1N1), is linked to a Smithfield Foods CAFO operating in Perote,...
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Diane Rosenberg
May 9, 20092 min read
A Scent of Change in the Air?
This week HBO is showing “Death on a Factory Farm”, a documentary that takes a hard look at the inhumane living conditions for industrial...
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Diane Rosenberg
May 29, 20083 min read
Livestock Industry Needs Sweeping Changes Says Two Reports
Two new studies have called for massive reforms to the country’s livestock industry. The Pew Commission report on Industrial Farm Animal...
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Diane Rosenberg
Apr 24, 20081 min read
Open Manure Piles Could Threaten Iowa
Open stockpiles of dry manure may become legal for all new CAFOs if Iowa hog, beef and poultry producers have their way. A proposal to...
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Diane Rosenberg
Mar 27, 20082 min read
Hogtied at the State House
Rooting Around from the Fairfield Weekly Reader A review of the small number of CAFO-related bills before this year’s State Assembly...
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Diane Rosenberg
Jan 25, 20082 min read
Do We Really Need an Odor Control Study?
Rooting Around from the Fairfield Weekly Reader Do we in Iowa want to spend $22.7 million and take five years to study how to reduce...
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Diane Rosenberg
Dec 7, 20073 min read
ROOTING AROUND from THE FAIRFIELD WEEKLY READER
Welcome to our new monthly column where we’ll keep you abreast of our continuing efforts to control the growth of factory farms in our...
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Diane Rosenberg
Aug 1, 20071 min read
Area Violations
Runoff Fouls Stream after Field Application Manure runoff polluted an unnamed tributary of Stump Creek near Batavia in May according to a...
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