Farmers Fought a Factory Farm and Won

Kendra Kimbirauskas and Starla Tillinghast are farmers who live in Scio, a small town in the rural Willamette Valley in Oregon. Home to covered bridges, seed crops, grazing lands, hazelnuts, timber, and small, well-tended dairies, this small farming community wasn’t against raising animals to feed people. But a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) would have […] The post Farmers Fought a Factory Farm and Won appeared first on Modern Farmer.

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Kendra Kimbirauskas and Starla Tillinghast are farmers who live in Scio, a small town in the rural Willamette Valley in Oregon. Home to covered bridges, seed crops, grazing lands, hazelnuts, timber, and small, well-tended dairies, this small farming community wasn’t against raising animals to feed people. But a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) would have completely changed the nature of their community. After learning about how other communities had been affected by large-scale chicken farms, Starla, Kendra, and a handful of their neighbors started Farmers Against Foster Farms and lobbied state and local government to create new regulations that would preserve local farms while keeping CAFOs out.