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Dairy farm employees get the straight facts about United Farm Workers—and the union leaders don’t like it 0
- Farmworker Protection, Farmworkers Voice, Latest News
- July 18, 2019
Eastern Washington farm employee educational meetings attacked by UFW with more false accusations Farmers and farm employees met in Granger and Yakima in early July to hear from an attorney, a farm worker and a former UFW union employee. These presented information to the farmers and farm employees about the United Farm Workers to better
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Washington dairy farm employees learn first hand about United Farm Workers 0
- Farmworker Protection, Farmworkers Voice, Latest News
- July 17, 2019
In mid-July nearly 50 Washington farm employees gathered to hear from two special guests from California. Sylvia Lopez is a farm worker from the Gerawan Farm in California, one of the largest fruit growers in the country. Francisco Cerritos was a longtime employee of the United Farm Workers union where his job was to be
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Capital Press reports EPA staying silent on science review request 0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Reports
- July 17, 2019
The West Coast ag newspaper reports that EPA Region 10 leaders are using Save Family Farming’s request for criminal investigation as the basis for refusing to supply proof of their claims about the science review of the discredited EPA nitrate report. That is clearly a dodge as they also refused to provide us proof of
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EPA Nitrate Study Appeal: Correspondence 0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News
- July 8, 2019
Since mid-2018 dairy farmers and farm leaders from Washington, Oregon and Idaho have been meeting and corresponding with EPA officials about the Yakima Nitrate Report. Here is a collection of the written correspondence. April 30, 2019 Letter to Rep. Newhouse and Rep. McMorris Rodgers asking for assistance with the EPA nitrate report: Following a May
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Dairy farmers ask: Where is the Trump administration’s commitment to transparency in science?0
- Clean Groundwater, EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Releases
- July 3, 2019
Dairy farmers are appealing to EPA Director Andrew Wheeler to take long-delayed action on conducting a real peer review of the 2012-2013 EPA Yakima Nitrate Report. This follows a similar request submitted by Congressman Dan Newhouse of Yakima on June 26. After months of effort with new Region 10 Administrator Christopher Hladick, farmers have turned
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“It’s a safety issue” say two school superintendents asking the state to manage the imported elk herd in Skagit Valley 0
- A Future for Farming, Latest News
- July 3, 2019
Two school district superintendents are adding to the urgent calls for Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to step up and manage the out of control imported elk population in Skagit Valley. Farmers have been complaining for years that the 600 plus elk imported improperly on the Valley floor have been causing damage toREAD MORE
Congressman Newhouse presses EPA for withdrawal of damaging EPA nitrate study 0
- EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Press Releases
- July 1, 2019
July 1, 2019 Dairy farmers from the Pacific Northwest have been appealing to the EPA for several months to address the false nitrate study published by Region 10 in 2012 and republished in 2013. This study has been used as the basis for EPA enforcement action that caused one farm to go out of business,
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Jason VanderKooy explains facts about drainage ditch buffers 0
- Latest News, Uncategorized
- July 1, 2019
For years some have been calling for shade buffers of at least 35 feet on the drainage ditches in the Skagit delta. As Skagit dairy farmer and farm leader Jason VanderKooy explains, this would do nothing help salmon or orcas but would make farming in this area almost impossible. Drainage ditches in this area are
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