DES MOINES — Farmers need to speak "consumer" if they hope to maintain their freedom to operate, Charlie Arnot told members of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation last week.

CHARLIE ARNOT: There is a significant bias against big food. And, in fact, the larger the company, the more likely consumers are to believe that that company will put profit ahead of public interest.

ST. PAUL — Food production is a noble endeavor, but the food system is coming under increasing scrutiny, said Charlie Arnot. Arnot is owner of CMA Consulting, a Kansas City, Mo., based public ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Animal agriculture is under increasing pressure, says Charlie Arnot, CEO of the Center for Food Integrity and president of CMA Consulting.

In his hotel headquarters at Bad Nauheim, where he directs a staff of five Americans and 80 Germans, Nebraska-born Charlie Arnot is careful not to compete with his old employer U.P. or other ...

The non-profit center Arnot now heads was founded in 2007. Four years later, as he noted in his Lincoln remarks, the state's livestock industry is alert to the possibility of the Humane Society of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Animal agriculture is under increasing pressure, says Charlie Arnot, CEO of the Center for Food Integrity and president of CMA Consulting.

Arnot said many consumers still want "farm" to mean a barn, a few cows and a tilted silo. "Comparing modern farming with that image is like comparing today's automobile to a '57 Chevy." ...