At least 30 North Carolina hog CAFOs have discharged manure following the recent torrential rains from Hurricane Florence. 40 more hog CAFO lagoons are topped off…
Tag: CAFOs
G. Mark Mickelson may want to add another service to his CAFO-consulting portfolio: guidance on how to control stink, noise, and bugs so they don’t…
In better pipeline news, the Grant County Commission revoked the legally dubious permission it granted CAFOs to run poop pipes through county rights of way:…
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources closes public comment tomorrow on the wastewater disposal pipeline that Agropur wants to build from its expanding Lake…
According to my friends at Dakota Rural Action, local landowners won an important victory against industrial livestockers in court this week. Judge Carmen Means upheld…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem puts on her Carhartts to visit her neighbor Eric and recite some platitudes about farming: She says the new Farm Bill is…
South Dakota’s next big pipeline won’t carry oil; it’ll carry wastewater from Agropur’s Lake Norden cheese plant to the Big Sioux River. According to documents…
The Spink County Planning and Zoning Commission turned down Arrow Farms’ application for a big confined animal feeding operation permit yesterday: A permit for a…
Kristi Noem agrees with me that South Dakota’s economy is unacceptably stagnant: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth, saying South Dakota’s Gross Domestic Product,…
It looks like I’m a regular! Patrick Lalley invited me on to his KSOO Radio program for another Tuesday afternoon conversation about South Dakota politics.…