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Legislation and programs in states like Missouri and Nebraska are paving the way to welcome large livestock operations by limiting local control over the facilities. Some rural residents worry about the potential pollution and decreased quality of life that will bring.
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More than a dozen Iowa environmental groups are calling on the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to more strongly regulate animal confinements and feedlots.
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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is in the process of renewing its master general permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations throughout the state. Environmental groups worry the new regulations won’t be stringent enough, pointing to a recent permit change at one facility.
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There are thousands of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, around the United States, but no one knows the exact number . Two Stanford...
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Growing up in Rushville, Carrie Johnson, the granddaughter of Schuyler County pig and dairy farmers, learned early-on the importance of agriculture to the…
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Thanks to tight competition, hog farmers are feeling a push to expand or get out of the business.That means indoor concentrated animal feeding operations,…
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The Illinois Pollution Control board is in the process of drafting new rules regulating large scale factory farms often called confined animal feeding…
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Lee County could gain more control over certain agriculture operations.The county has formed a committee to look into the pros/cons of adopting the Iowa…