When a few hens behind a fence require lawyers, permits, and neighbor vetoes, we’ve lost the plot. Food sovereignty starts at home—and no city hall should stand between a family and its breakfast. Yanasa TV News The split-screen America of backyard chickens In 2025, you can watch two very different stories play out—often on neighboring…
When a utility sues its way onto pastures before it earns local permits, that’s not progress—it’s a breach of trust. Yanasa TV News Out on the high grass of Elbert and El Paso counties, the story is simple: families who stewarded these rangelands for generations woke up to find their fences on the wrong side…
Securing market access for nearby farms isn’t a luxury—it’s basic food security and real food sovereignty. Yanasa TV News The question isn’t whether to protect neighborhoods; it’s whether a tightly conditioned, small-scale plant can coexist and actually strengthen the community. When McHenry County, Illinois approved a conditional-use permit for a small slaughterhouse outside Woodstock, it…
A January 22, 2025 ruling forces the Netherlands to hit its own 2030 nitrogen goal or pay €10 million—raising immediate questions about when new rules bite, who gets squeezed, and what Europe risks. Yanasa TV News On January 22, 2025, the District Court of The Hague ruled that the Dutch state must achieve its statutory 2030…
While we argue the premise, they’re already shipping the product. Global ag giants are moving ahead—bioengineering the living systems beneath our feet. Yanasa TV News I’m not in the business of rewriting nature. I believe in working with the land—or getting out of its way. But engineered microbes are already in our fields, and pretending…
How Housing in Leeds Fueled Distrust Over Rural Land Use, Conservation, and the Displacement of Ranching in the American West Yanasa TV News In the rural outpost of Leeds, Utah, a new housing and commercial project rises where open space once stretched toward red cliffs and the Mojave desert winds. For residents and the ranching…
From Wisconsin’s poultry barns to Nevada’s marshlands, the 2025 fall migration season is delivering the strongest signs yet that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) Yanasa TV News From Wisconsin’s poultry barns to Nevada’s marshlands, the 2025 fall migration season is delivering the strongest signs yet that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) is again tightening its grip…
If November 1 arrives without a deal, SNAP benefits will stop Yanasa TV News A Crisis Born in Congress, Not the USDA Tens of millions of Americans who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) may not receive their food benefits starting November 1. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it cannot legally issue payments without…
How a $13 Billion Shipping Fee Could Redefine Global Trade — and Quietly Reshape the Economics of Food, Energy, and Sovereignty. Yanasa TV News A global first: the IMO’s Net-Zero “Levy” This week in London, delegates from more than 170 nations are meeting under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) — a specialized agency of the United Nations…
When “mandatory” doesn’t mean guaranteed — and what that says about rural America. Yanasa TV News As of today, dramatic headlines are saying that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) “will end November 1st” if the federal government remains shut down. While the language may be alarmist, there is a serious risk behind it—one that affects…