Bill Pluecker

1 week ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Bill Pluecker |Ames Alexander

Slick marketing and the ubiquity of misleading “eco friendly” products at big box and local gardening supply stores could lead to unwitting contamination in your home garden. Here are a few tips to help you reduce the risk to your plants and soil. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a large family of chemicals with extremely strong carbon-fluorine bonds that are virtually impossible to break.

Oct 8, 2024 | barnraisingmedia.com | Mike Ludwig |Ana Radelat |Ava Kian |Bill Pluecker

Now, researchers have identified dozens of “election deniers” in key swing states who are in positions of power and influence ahead of the 2024 elections, suggesting that Trump and the Republican Party are better positioned to act on disinformation and disrupt vote counting this time around.

Oct 6, 2024 | barnraisingmedia.com | Nina Elkadi |Winona LaDuke |Mike Ludwig |Bill Pluecker

On September 25, Harkin opened the two-day Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment and Public Health conference at his namesake Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Sep 22, 2024 | barnraisingmedia.com | Bill Pluecker |Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Paco Alvarez

Soon after Stone reported the contamination to his milk shipper—additional tests found high levels of PFAS in Stoneridge’s milk, hay and cow manure—his farm was . In the years since, other vegetable and dairy farmers have been alerted to PFAS in their land, water and bodies, causing them to pause production or cease altogether.

Sep 18, 2024 | barnraisingmedia.com | Nina Elkadi |Winona LaDuke |Bill Pluecker |Matt Barron

As a September 30 deadline looms to pass a new farm bill, farm groups and agriculture leaders of all stripes are stepping up calls for Congress to act, warning that too long of a wait for a new bill, or an extension, could create problems for farmers and eaters across the country.