Sep 30, 2018 2 min Huber CAFO: Where Are We Now? Where Do We Go From Here? JFAN provided an update on the Daniels Site with the following article published in the September 28 Fairfield Weekly Reader. The DNR iss...
Sep 30, 2018 2 min JFAN LTE: Officials Ignore Environmental, Health Concerns on CAFOs JFAN published the following Letter to the Editor in the September 28, 2018 Fairfield Ledger commenting on the Jefferson County Superviso...
Sep 7, 2018 2 min New JFAN LTE: JFAN Promotes Alternatives to CAFOs Published in the September 6 Fairfield Ledger. Given some recent public discussion and a letter to the editor about Jefferson County Farm...
Aug 24, 2018 2 min 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 Boa...
Aug 17, 2018 3 min 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 ...
Jul 28, 2017 2 min 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 resolutio...
Jun 22, 2017 2 min 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 cons...
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 f...
May 27, 2016 2 min Pork Producers Received Special Treatment Joint Letter to the Editor from JFAN and the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project appearing in the May 26, 2016 Fairfield Ledger The...
Apr 1, 2016 2 min Lawsuits Take Their Toll on CAFO Owners JFAN letter to the editor published in the March 31, 2016 edition of The Fairfield Ledger. This letter will also appear as a paid ad in t...
Jan 8, 2016 7 min Report on Organic Chicken House in County The following letter to the editor was published in the January 7, 2016 edition of the Fairfield Ledger. A certified organic farmer in Je...
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, su...
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) threatene...
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...
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 learne...
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 Cree...
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 J...
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...
