Fighting the Corporate CAFO ‘Takeover’ of Rural America

Image: (Left – book author) Sonja Trom Eayrs. (Right – book) Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America. Interview article by Tilde Herrera. Civil Eats – November 18, 2024.

In 2014, Lowell and Evelyn Trom learned that a farmer wanted to build a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) across the road from their family farm in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring. […]

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