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    Diane Rosenberg
    • May 8, 2015
    • 3 min

    CAFOs Are Not “Farms”

    Not long ago in Jefferson County, hogs grazed on pastures. A-frame farrowing huts dotted the countryside. Many small farms flourished,...
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • Apr 3, 2015
    • 2 min

    Stand Up for Local Control of CAFOs

    JFAN Letter to the Editor Published in the April 2, 2015 Fairfield Ledger ​ When a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation)...
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    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...
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    It’s Time to Change “Business as Usual” ­­– Food & Water Watch’s Wenonah Hauter at JFAN Annual M
    Diane Rosenberg
    • Sep 3, 2014
    • 2 min

    It’s Time to Change “Business as Usual” ­­– Food & Water Watch’s Wenonah Hauter at JFAN Annual M

    Hauter will explain how a handful of powerful agribusiness corporations have profoundly influenced the political system, lobbying for US agr
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    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
    • Jun 20, 2014
    • 2 min

    Iowa production doesn’t honor independent farmers

    To the Editor: In her May 29 letter, Tracy Diehl speaks highly of Jefferson County’s farmers, particularly century farm families. Long...
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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
    • Nov 22, 2013
    • 2 min

    New Eco-resort Unhappy with Hog Confinement

    Letter to the Editor Appearing in the November 21, 2013 Fairfield Ledger To the editor: With tremendous concern my neighbors and I...
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • Nov 15, 2013
    • 2 min

    Spreading Hog Waste Is Health Risk

    To the editor: ​ Runoff from a field application of liquid hog manure has again fouled Iowa streams, this time a tributary to Walnut...
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • Oct 14, 2013
    • 3 min

    JFAN Response to Proposed Confinement

    Published in the October 10, 2013 issue of the Fairfield Ledger ​ This guest editorial was written in response to a letter submitted by...
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • Oct 10, 2013
    • 3 min

    Guest Editorial: JFAN Response to Proposed Confinement

    Published in the October 10, 2013 issue of the Fairfield Ledger This guest editorial was written in response to a letter submitted by...
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • May 17, 2013
    • 2 min

    JFAN's Letter to the Editor published in the May 16, 2013 Fairfield Ledger

    To the Editor: ​ Batavia and Eldon area residents have repeatedly asked the Adam family to not build Valley View Swine because of harmful...
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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...
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    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,...
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    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
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    Diane Rosenberg
    • Mar 10, 2010
    • 6 min

    Update on Area CAFOs

    Although the actual settlement terms are confidential, JFAN understands that the plaintiffs in the case consider the settlement to be a very
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    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,...
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    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...
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    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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