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Emergency Meeting on Huber CAFO Wednesday, September 5 at 7:15 pm
With Special Guest Senator David Johnson Public Comments to Be Collected and Sent to Bill Huber The Daniels Site, a 7497-head hog...
Diane Rosenberg
Aug 30, 20182 min read


What Took Place During Tuesday Night’s Public Hearing on RWP, LLC
Action Steps Recommended! The Jefferson County Courtroom was packed last night when between 125-150 people attended the Public Hearing...
Diane Rosenberg
Aug 29, 20182 min read


Report from Monday’s Master Matrix Scoring Session for RWP, LLC
PUBLIC HEARING AUGUST 28 • 6:00 PM Jefferson County Courthouse Today the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors held the initial scoring...
Diane Rosenberg
Aug 27, 20186 min read


Important Public Hearing 6:00 pm TUESDAY on NEW CAFO Threatening Jefferson County
RWP, LLC PUBLIC HEARING – Tuesday, August 28 at 6:00 pm (corrected time) Jefferson County Courthouse, 51 W. Briggs, Fairfield Mark...
Diane Rosenberg
Aug 24, 20182 min read


JFAN LTE: What Our Supervisors CAN Do
The following letter appeared in the August 23 edition of the Fairfield Weekly Reader. To the editor: Last week, the Jefferson County...
Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
Aug 23, 20182 min read


Eight Letters to the Editor Call Out the Huber CAFO
Not one, not two, but EIGHT LTE's opposing the 7,497-head Daniels Site appeared in the Thursday, August 23 Fairfield Ledger. The largest...
Diane Rosenberg
Aug 23, 201811 min read


JFAN Publishes LTE on Daniels Site
The following letter appeared in the August 16, 2018 edition the Fairfield Ledger. Concerned about the Daniels Site and the introduction...
Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
Aug 17, 20183 min read


Jefferson County Supervisors Pass Large Hog Confinement Master Matrix without a Public Hearing
CAFO Will Be the Largest Factory Farm in the County – ACTION STEPS BELOW! On Monday afternoon, August 13, the Jefferson County...
Diane Rosenberg
Aug 14, 20186 min read


Children Are Vulnerable to CAFO Impacts
CAFOs can have serious health impacts on our most vulnerable citizens - our precious children. JFAN's new ad focuses on the risks factory...
Diane Rosenberg
Dec 28, 20171 min read


Over 450 Pack the Sondheim for the October 19 JFAN Annual Meeting
Over 450 people from Jefferson County and across the Iowa filled the Sondheim Theatre in the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center for the...
Diane Rosenberg
Oct 24, 20171 min read


Award-Winning Syndicated Columnist Alan Guebert on Breaking Free of Corporate Ag – JFAN Annual Meeti
Breaking the Grip of Corporate Agriculture on Rural Iowa THURSDAY, October 19, 2017 at 7:15 pm Fairfield Arts & Convention Center,...
Diane Rosenberg
Sep 22, 20172 min read


CAFOs Are Not Real Farms - New JFAN Ad!
Check out JFAN's new ad, CAFOs Are Not Real Farms - Here's Why, and see for yourself the difference between industrial hog operations and...
Diane Rosenberg
Sep 19, 20171 min read


LTE: Why No CAFO Moratorium on Supervisor Agenda?
The Fairfield Ledger’s July 13 article covered JFAN’s request to Jefferson County supervisors to formally consider a moratorium...
Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
Jul 28, 20172 min read


Supervisors Deny JFAN’s Request to Address Resolution at Board Meeting
On Monday, July 10, JFAN presented a petition signed by 1328 county residents calling for a CAFO “moratorium resolution” to Supervisors...
Diane Rosenberg
Jul 10, 20175 min read


What Took Place at the June 26 Jefferson County Supervisors Meeting
On Monday, June 26, JFAN attended the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting expecting our supervisors would discuss whether to...
Diane Rosenberg
Jun 26, 20174 min read


LTE: Supervisors Represent Everyone in County
At a supervisors meeting several weeks ago, Jefferson County residents asked Supervisors Dick Reed, Dee Sandquist and Lee Dimmitt to...
Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
Jun 22, 20172 min read


New JFAN Ad: Why We Need a CAFO Moratorium
JFAN's newest ad that appeared in the April 28 Fairfield Ledger and May 2 Fairfield Town Crier calling for a Jefferson County...
Diane Rosenberg
May 1, 20171 min read


Let's Have Jefferson County Adopt a Resolution Calling for a Factory Farm Moratorium
Since November, seven Iowa counties have either passed resolutions or written letters to the state legislature calling for a factory farm...
Diane Rosenberg
Apr 1, 20172 min read


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...
Diane Rosenberg | President and Executive Director
Mar 30, 20172 min read


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...
Diane Rosenberg
Jan 26, 20171 min read
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