by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Organic farmers sustain huge losses From GMO contamination
DANFORTH, ILL. – On a warm September day on the cusp of harvest season, about 70 farmers from throughout the Midwest drove to a cavernous metal equipment barn on Harold Wilken’s organic grain farm in Iroquois County. They came to…
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Farmer links dead calves and tainted silage to pesticide drift
After 40 years of farming in rural Princeton, Dan Schafer is between a rock and a hard place, grappling with a problem that could threaten his livelihood and the safety of the public food supply. He told his long-time…