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Drying Up the Heartland: Texas Ranchers Battle Water Exports
ByYanasa TV News July 31, 2025August 1, 2025

How Texas Ranchers Are Losing Their Water to Urban Thirst—and Why the Fight for Groundwater Could Decide the State’s Rural Future Yanasa TV News Stretching across the rolling limestone hills of Central Texas, the ranches of the Hill Country are icons of the American rural landscape. Here, generations of families have carved out a living…

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This Land Is Not Your Land
ByYanasa TV News July 31, 2025August 1, 2025

Cranbury Township has taken its first formal steps toward seizing the Henry family’s 175-year-old farm, defying federal pressure from the Trump administration and raising alarms about the fate of legacy farmland across the United States. The move marks a significant escalation in a battle that has pitted local housing mandates against agricultural preservation—and now, the authority of a sitting U.S. cabinet secretary against the will of a small New Jersey town.

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Restoring the Buffalo People: Food, Sovereignty, and the Power of Seven Generations
ByYanasa TV News July 30, 2025August 1, 2025

Behind the Scenes at Rosebud Reservation, Where Bison, Culture, and Community are Growing Stronger Together Yanasa TV News The road to healing—for land, people, and spirit—often begins with something deceptively simple: food. Not just eating, but growing, harvesting, and sharing food in a way that honors culture, history, and future generations. On the Rosebud Reservation in Mission,…

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They’re About To Spray RNA on Our Food—And Yes It “Replicates”
ByYanasa TV News July 29, 2025August 1, 2025

Self-Replicating RNA Is Coming to Your Dinner Plate Altering Our Food For Generations Yanasa TV News RNA in the Fields: Terrana Biosciences, Genetic Innovation, and Unanswered Questions If you were to ask someone about RNA, particularly a scientist or biotech expert, they would likely tell you it’s safe—and for good reason. RNA is a naturally…

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Meatpacking Monopolies: How Big Meat Is Bankrupting America’s Small Ranchers
ByYanasa TV News July 27, 2025July 27, 2025

How Tyson and Big Meat’s Monopoly Tactics Are Forcing Family Ranchers Off the Land—And Why America’s Food Future Is at Stake Yanasa TV News The American heartland, once the backbone of family-owned agriculture, is facing a crisis few outside rural communities truly grasp. Beneath the supermarket’s “low prices” and corporate PR spin, small ranchers and…

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Supreme Court Declares No Right to Grow Food — Door Now Open for Farm Closures!”
ByYanasa TV News July 26, 2025July 27, 2025

The Supreme Court Catalyst: Essex Junction Case In May 2025, the Vermont Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that redefined how farming is regulated at the municipal level. The case involved Jason Struthers, a resident of Essex Junction, who operated a small backyard duck farm and an outdoor cannabis garden. When the city moved to shut down his operations based…

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Green Houses are Illegal “Dangerous” Structures
ByYanasa TV News July 23, 2025July 27, 2025

How One Woman’s Dream to Feed Her Community Sparked a Bureaucratic Battle in Teller County Yanasa TV News A Mountain Garden Under Fire In the crisp alpine air of Divide, Colorado, where growing seasons are short and soil yields are often poor, one woman dared to build a solution. Virginia “Jenny” Loop, a resident of…

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Oregon’s Farms Regulated Out of Existence
ByYanasa TV News July 23, 2025July 27, 2025

How Oregon’s Small Farms Are Being Strangled by Policy Yanasa TV News In a state that prides itself on sustainability, food justice, and local resilience, Oregon’s regulatory trajectory tells a different story—one of mounting pressure on the very farmers who uphold those values. From water rights crackdowns and confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) overreach to…

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The Rattlesnake Reckoning: How Federal Plans Could Seize Land, Water—and Liberty
ByYanasa TV News July 12, 2025July 27, 2025

Kansas Farmers Fight Back as Federal Conservation Plan Threatens Land and Water Rights Through Eminent Domain Yanasa TV News “This isn’t just a water management issue. It’s a full-blown federal overreach—an unlawful and fiscally reckless plan to take private property and repurpose public funds to correct a problem created by the federal government.” Tracey Barton…

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“Lingering Questions in the Sky: Cloud Seeding, Texas Floods, and the Silence of Power”
ByYanasa TV News July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

As officials dismiss scientific inquiry as conspiracy, evidence mounts that weather modification programs—tied to hydropower and Big Tech—deserve urgent scrutiny. With AI infrastructure now federally deregulated, cloud seeding may quietly become the backbone of the digital economy. We Need Facts—Not Fear, Not Dismissal In the wake of the devastating July 4, 2025, floods in Texas,…

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