Farmers & Rural Communities
The New Lede: Taking a stand — new legal group focuses on farm country
The New Lede spoke with FarmSTAND Executive Director Jessica Culpepper about the group’s goals to dismantle a “corporate-controlled, industrial food system” and support regenerative farming to help “change the system…
Sentient Media: A New Coalition for Suing Factory Farms Launches
Now, organizations like Dakota Rural Action have a new ally, a hub focused on uniting lawyers across the country toward the goal of protecting people from factory farms.
Agri-Pulse: New legal group wants to ‘dismantle’ corporate ag
A new legal group will focus on “dismantling corporate agriculture,” particularly consolidation in the meat industry.
New Legal Advocacy Hub to Target Corporate Control Over the Food System
Litigators and community advocates announced a new organization, FarmSTAND, to address the harms of corporate-controlled industrial agriculture and advance a just and regenerative food system.
Sunnyside Sun: Washington State dairies to clean up groundwater in response to lawsuit
Upgrades to manure management, provision of clean drinking water to residents among the many improvements in the settlement.
El Sol de Yakima: Dos lecherías del valle bajo acuerdan mejoras medioambientales, limpiar aguas subterráneas
Dos granjas lecheras del valle bajo aceptaron realizar importantes mejoras medioambientales y embarcarse en un proyecto de limpieza de aguas subterráneas en el marco de un acuerdo alcanzado en un…
Capital Press: Two Washington dairy farms settle pollution lawsuit
Two dairy farms in Washington’s Yakima Valley have settled a lawsuit alleging violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in their handling of manure.
Washington State Dairies Agree to Clean Up Groundwater in Response to Lawsuit
YAKIMA, WA — In a court settlement filed Friday, DBD Washington, LLC and SMD, LLC, two factory farm dairies in Yakima Valley, WA owned by Austin Jack DeCoster, agree to…
Las Lecherías del Estado de Washington Están Acuerdan Limpiar las Aguas Subterráneas en Respuesta a una Demanda
YAKIMA, WA — En una conciliación judicial presentada el viernes, DBD Washington, LLC y SMD, LLC, dos granjas industriales en el Valle de Yakima, propiedad de Austin Jack DeCoster, acuerdan …