9/30/20 9/30/20

Clean Water & Factory Farms

9/30/20 9/30/20

Top 10 Reasons Iowa Needs a Moratorium on Factory Farms

9/25/20 9/25/20

Moving Forward Together in the Call for Justice in Agriculture: In Iowa and Across the Nation

At Iowa CCI, we fight for a food and farm system that works for family farmers, workers, eaters, and the environment. That includes confronting the reality that the United States — including Iowa — was built on stolen land and labor, and the exploitation, oppression, and erase of Black, Indigenous,

6/29/20 6/29/20

Myth-busters: If Iowa feeds the world, why can't it feed us during COVID-19?

12/17/19 12/17/19

U.S. Senator Booker (D-NJ) introduces a national factory farm moratorium

9/6/19 9/6/19

Black Hawk county calls for moratorium on factory farms

7/10/19 7/10/19

Midwest farm groups step up fight against factory farms

3/27/19 3/27/19

Public Interest Groups File Lawsuit for Clean Water, Gather at Capitol Building to Demand Accountability

3/5/19 3/5/19

$4.5 million public dollars in Iowa go to subsidizing factory farms

According to fiscal services at the Iowa State Capitol, counties are losing at least $4.5 million dollars in revenue through property tax exemptions to the factory farm industry. Factory farms are benefiting from a tax law loophole that makes their manure pits exempt from property taxation.

2/27/19 2/27/19

Rep. Dean Fisher singlehandedly holds up a factory farm moratorium bill

2/14/19 2/14/19

70 Organizations Call on Iowa’s Legislature to Support Sweeping Proposal for a Moratorium on Iowa Factory Farms

Today, a coalition of 70 environmental, community and agricultural organizations called on Iowa’s General Assembly to advance a legislative proposal for a moratorium on new and expanding factory farms in the state. View the full sign on letter here.

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement