There is a crisis growing across the U.S., leaving many farmers without the support they need, and many animals without adequate care. Amid the Trump administration’s vow to “rebuild the Great American Beef herd,” a shortage of veterinarians willing and able to treat farm animals is causing concern for food safety, public health and animal
Continue ReadingThe professor of political science remembers the neighbors emptying the waste from thousands of birds onto fields. She and her brother would break out into rashes. An Independent voters organization co-founder and farm owner remembers his dad, who raised beef cattle and hogs, calling the smell of manure “the smell of money.” It was the
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John Boyer grew up on his family’s 131 acres of rolling fields of corn, oats, and wheat in a rural area near the tiny city of East Jordan in northern Michigan. The farm had changed ownership outside the family several times over the decades before Boyer rebought it in 2018. He felt an obligation to
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Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, soy and other crops can absorb. This has a devastating effect on the state’s water. When too much manure is
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The Daily Yonder reports fears of farmland loss hinder renewable energy growth in rural areas, despite potential benefits for farmers.
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