“Many people learned about the extreme animal abuse happening in Sonoma County for the first time. We look forward to continuing this critical work together.” The No on J side expressed ...

On Friday, Sonoma County Judge Robert LaForge scheduled a ... Factory Farming released a statement late Tuesday saying the "No on J" campaign was backed by industry giants like Perdue and that ...

Thousands responded to our PD/KRCB exit survey on the factory-farming ballot question, which failed badly. “Too much, too ...

At a watch party in Santa Rosa on Tuesday night, the mood was joyous as Dayna Ghirardelli, the executive director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau, announced that early voting showed an 85% vote for ...

That parallels the results of the exit poll, in which 83% of participants said they voted no on Measure J. If it had passed, the measure would have made Sonoma the first county in the United ...

In Sonoma County, no ballot measure has gotten more attention than Measure J. Put on the ballot by animal rights groups, Measure J would ban “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” in the county. It ...

If Measure J passes, Sonoma County farms with more than 700 dairy ... it’s going to create a complete trickle-down effect, no matter what size farm you are," said Ghirardelli.

In the 1940s, Sonoma County had more than 4,000 egg producers ... been spent lobbying against the bill through the campaign “No on J," which is funded by some of the region’s largest ...