Oink!
Remember the 26,000-pig CAFO an Iowa mega-producer wanted to site close to Lake Superior in NW Wisconsin? (The application is considered incomplete, the DNR reports).
Well, that pig-CAFO alarm is going off in Michigan.
The push and pull between Michigan’s growing agriculture industry and the need to protect drinking water, beach recreation and tourism continues to play out, evidenced by a request to establish a factory pig farm a few miles from Lake Michigan.
Remember the 26,000-pig CAFO an Iowa mega-producer wanted to site close to Lake Superior in NW Wisconsin? (The application is considered incomplete, the DNR reports).
Well, that pig-CAFO alarm is going off in Michigan.
The push and pull between Michigan’s growing agriculture industry and the need to protect drinking water, beach recreation and tourism continues to play out, evidenced by a request to establish a factory pig farm a few miles from Lake Michigan.
Pigs in Concentrated Animal Feed Operation, courtesy of USGS.gov
The proposed Marsh Swine farm near Montague, Michigan would house 4,000 pigs in a facility known as a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, or CAFO.