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    Put Moratorium on CAFOs: JFAN Letter to the Editor in Fairfield Ledger
    Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
    • Mar 30, 2017
    • 2 min

    Put Moratorium on CAFOs: JFAN Letter to the Editor in Fairfield Ledger

    Webster, Allamakee, Winneshiek, Pocahontas, Dickinson and Buchanan*: What do these six counties have in common? Their recent call for a...
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    JFAN Updates and Republishes Ad on Regenerative Farming
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Jan 26, 2017
    • 1 min

    JFAN Updates and Republishes Ad on Regenerative Farming

    To underscore its support of regenerative farming, JFAN updated and republished its ad, "All Farming Is Not the Same" that also...
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    New Alliance Calls for Statewide Moratorium on New and Expanding Factory Farms
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Sep 16, 2016
    • 4 min

    New Alliance Calls for Statewide Moratorium on New and Expanding Factory Farms

    Iowans are already calling for an end to new factory farms in their communities. Eight counties rejected factory farm permits in recent mont
    17 views0 comments
    “Why We Need a CAFO Moratorium”

Keynote Bill Stowe at the 2016 JFAN Annual Meeting
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Sep 10, 2016
    • 3 min

    “Why We Need a CAFO Moratorium” Keynote Bill Stowe at the 2016 JFAN Annual Meeting

    Iowa has over 9,000 factory farms confining the vast majority of 20 million Iowa hogs and a record 754 water impairments, and those numbers
    58 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Mar 25, 2016
    • 2 min

    Urge the DNR to Strengthen Factory Farm Laws

    Public Comment Period Open on DNR Rule Review - Comments Accepted until June 3 ** Southeast Iowa Public Hearing Info ** ​ Tuesday, May 31...
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    2015 JFAN Annual Meeting!
More CAFOs Are Coming – What YOU Can Do
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Aug 21, 2015
    • 2 min

    2015 JFAN Annual Meeting! More CAFOs Are Coming – What YOU Can Do

    What EVERYONE can do to fight back against unwanted CAFOs. Whether you’re a rural resident facing a current threat, a rural resident wanting
    7 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • May 19, 2015
    • 3 min

    Supervisors Approve Hill View Master Matrix

    Over these last several weeks, JFAN conducted a complete and detailed analysis of the Master Matrix. Ultimately, we found six questions that
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • May 18, 2015
    • 2 min

    May 18, 2015 Hill View LLC Master Matrix Public Hearing

    Hill View is doubling in size to 3600 hogs. CAFOs of this size have a big impact on communities whether people speak out or not. It is respe
    14 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Oct 2, 2014
    • 3 min

    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...
    28 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
    • Aug 8, 2014
    • 3 min

    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, 2013
    • 4 min

    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, 2013
    • 1 min

    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...
    8 views0 comments
    JFAN Distributes 900+ Books on Livestock Production to Policymakers, Others Throughout State
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Jun 15, 2012
    • 2 min

    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,...
    2 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Sep 1, 2010
    • 3 min

    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, 2010
    • 3 min

    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
    13 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Jul 9, 2009
    • 2 min

    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,...
    7 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • May 9, 2009
    • 2 min

    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...
    6 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • May 29, 2008
    • 3 min

    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, 2008
    • 1 min

    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...
    7 views0 comments
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Mar 27, 2008
    • 2 min

    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...
    5 views0 comments
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