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for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune into the natural instincts of the livestock .
He’s down to now the 320 acres he owns and about 80 surrounding acres. The overall livestock number has also gone down, from 600 cows to about 80 cows and 50 ewes. But this isn’t a story of loss overall. While the acreage and herd sizes have diminished, many things have expanded and improved since Watkins started transforming the farm away from conventional standards.
“I feel a lot more hope in what I’m doing now than what I’ve spent the last 30 years doing,” Watkins says. He contributed a chapter to the recently published bookSome people would call Watkins’ style of farming inefficient. It certainly isn’t about maximizing the amount of protein produced.
He hopes that these numbers will be useful to many others. “We’d like people to get a better sense of and be able to parse information that they’re being given about the food industry more accurately.
As her relatives started to fall ill, this encirclement of factory farms didn’t go unchallenged. In the final years of her parents’ lives, the Troms mounted three legal cases against the 11The battle was stacked against them. From the planning commission to the board of commissioners, the local government officials included people who owned CAFOs or were employed by CAFO financiers. In Eayrs’ forthcoming book,It wasn’t a fair fight, and it wasn’t confined to government buildings.
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