Large-scale animal feeding operators, (CAFOs), their pollution records and related demands for eased regulation and Wisconsin groundwater are repeatedly in the news.
And that flow of news continues.
Department of Natural Resources records indicate that a Minnesota business has filed an application to open a swine CAFO housing about 2,800 animals in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin by a Minnesota-based business; the application by an Iowa swine producer for a far larger swine CAFO in Bayfield County in northwestern Wisconsin is still pending.
CAFO's, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, house at least 1,000 animals, or fewer if certain discharge standards are met, according to the DNR.
There are more than 200 CAFOs in Wisconsin; most feed dairy cattle, DNR records show.
And that flow of news continues.
Department of Natural Resources records indicate that a Minnesota business has filed an application to open a swine CAFO housing about 2,800 animals in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin by a Minnesota-based business; the application by an Iowa swine producer for a far larger swine CAFO in Bayfield County in northwestern Wisconsin is still pending.
CAFO's, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, house at least 1,000 animals, or fewer if certain discharge standards are met, according to the DNR.
There are more than 200 CAFOs in Wisconsin; most feed dairy cattle, DNR records show.