by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Nov 20, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, State Policy
In the winter of 2018, Lauralynn Cornelsen moved out of her mobile home in Sunizona, an unincorporated community in southeast Arizona. After more than six years, she was tired of hauling water for drinking and bathing, and she couldn’t afford to drill a well —...
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Jul 14, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, Fair Market
A handful of powerful companies control the majority market share of almost 80% of dozens of grocery items bought regularly by ordinary Americans, new analysis reveals. A joint investigation by the Guardian and Food and Water Watch found that consumer choice is...
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Jun 1, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, State Policy
In late January last year, dairy farmers filled a pub in the tiny town of Greenwald, Minnesota (population 238). Organisers from the Land Stewardship Project – a sustainable agriculture nonprofit – expected 50 people to attend, but 130 showed up from all...
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Mar 4, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, Fair Market
Bonnie and Vance Haugen’s small dairy farm weathered nearly three decades of relentless market forces, shifting government policies and the unpredictable dictates of nature and biology. But 2020 was the year that almost killed this family operation. “Prices were...
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Jan 12, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, Solutions
Ron Rosmann’s 700-acre certified organic grain and livestock farm in Shelby County, Iowa is an island in a sea of very large conventional soy or corn operations. Farmers in the area don’t typically pay a lot of attention to the health of their soil—which has, on...
