Goebbels Reports Progress on the Eastern Front

We’re advancing backward in a forceful way
Agriculture Degrades the Livability of Iowa

But there’s hope–it doesn’t have to be that way
Taking the Cow Path

Did environmentalists lay an egg on cattle?
Peaches

If John McPhee can write an entire book with the one word title “Oranges”, I can write an essay titled “Peaches.”
A Misstep in the Wrong Direction

News on August 25 reported Sheriff Mike Naig unholstering his squirt gun yet again to apply a gentle mist onto the raging inferno that is Iowa’s water quality and overall environmental condition. This time it was $3 million from the state’s water quality initiative fund for a pilot project that would install buffer strips (i.e. […]
A Progressive Platform for Iowa Food and Agriculture

Secretary of Agriculture is one of seven executive offices Iowans see on their off-year voting ballot. The Iowa legislature created both the office and the Department of Agriculture (now IDALS) in 1923. It may seem curious that we have a statewide election for the administrator of a department that employs less than 2% of the […]
There’s Been a Deluge, All Right…

….of bullshit
Fight for Your Life

Because politicians won’t fight for it
You Can’t Do a Damn Thing About It

So remember that, chumps.
Money Laundering in the Big Ag Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a collection of organisms that interact with one another and the physical environment to form a functioning unit; nutrient and energy flows bond the codependent species and individuals within species. Some ecosystems include a diverse assemblage of many different species (rain forest); others are not so diverse (tundra). Of course, ecosystems commonly […]