Photos

  • Farmers Union delegation in Washington DC, September 10, 2024

  • Iowa CCI Annual Summer Get-Together August 10, 2024

  • Family Farmers Coalition, Iowa CCI Delegate, Berea, Kentucky August 6-9, 2024

  • Iowa Capitol, House Representative JD Scholten, plus Iowa Farmers Union members: lobbying for family farmers, Feb. 21, 2024

  • Iowa Capitol -- Jan 31, 2024 -- Protecting Transgender Rights

  • Iowa Nature Summitt 2023, Drake University

  • Delegate to National Family Farm Coalition Conference, August 2023, Des Moines

  • Workshop on prairie insects, Reiman Gardens, Ames, March 2023

  • South of Omaha NE, with an employee of Stock Seed Farms, collecting an order of prairie seed for the farm in Poweshiek County

  • John with fellow members of Gay men's social organization, Prime Timers of Central Iowa, Potluck event in Des Moines

  • First Friday Breakfast Club in Des Moines, John with Mark Stringer, Executive Director of The American Civil Liberties Union in Iowa

  • Farmers' conference in Cedar Rapids, with staff members of Practical Farmers of Iowa that hosted the event

  • Lobbying at Iowa Capitol for Senate Bill 101. Effort to block carbon pipelines from being built across Iowa farm land. Feb. 21, 2023

  • Lobbying for family farmers and for sustainable agriculture, 2023

  • State Capitol--Feb 2023, lobbying for moratorium on new CAFO construction

  • Practical Farmers of Iowa Conference in Ames, with Thomas Hexter who owns an Iowa food market called Grinnell Farm-To-Table that sources products from 15-20 local farmers. Tommy was a lead speaker at one of the Practical Farmers seminars.

  • Iowa Farmers Union Annual Conference in Marshalltown, with Congressman Ro Khanna

  • Iowa Soil Conference, with soil health expert Jerry Hatfield-PHD

  • Poweshiek County Soil and Water Commissioners, 2019, Left to Right – John Clayton, Zach Van Arkel, Mark McGrory, Mike Phillips, John Mann

  • IowaCCI and with Food and Water Watch, lobbying on Farm Bill, visiting representatives on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC

  • Grinnell Library, with presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg

  • Grinnell College, with presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and Margaret Clayton--John's mother

  • Washington DC, with Food and Water Watch, lobbying on Farm Bill

  • Washington DC, visiting Iowa Congressional offices asking for family farmer legislation, 2017

  • Long-time teacher in Texas, taught 12th Grade Economics, Barbara Jordan High School, Houston ISD, Texas