John Ikerd

Elsie Herring was a friend! We weren’t close personal friends but professional friends who shared a sense of mutual respect and common...

When speaking at public events about the negative impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operators or CAFOs, I am often asked how best to...

In my previous blog post, I focused on opportunities for specific changes in the food system created by the COVID-19 crisis.

We are now seeing a corporate takeover of dairy production, which is the last bastion of full-time, independent animal production.

Land-use plans for rural America are not a new idea. The Buffalo Commons was a proposal made first by Frank and Deborah Popper who argued...

Over the past several weeks I have posted blogs of my responses to some of the most common questions asked by defenders of CAFOs. I have...

We are slowly winning the war against factory farms, even though we are obviously not winning every battle. The recent exposé of factory...

Advocates of “sustainable” animal agriculture and advocates of humane treatment of animals have been fighting parallel battles against...

Note: A more complete treatment of CAFO issues, with references to sources of information in this blog, is posted on my homepage:...