Republican lawmakers are making a last-minute push to change the rules for siting the state`s largest livestock farms, giving state government more control over the process and granting agriculture groups considerably more power over changing the standards in the future.Current standards were written into law in 2006 and have remained unchanged ever since. While the new bill wouldn`t initially make major adjustments to current standards, future changes would have to be approved or rejected by a panel of nine stakeholders, five of whom would be chosen from farm groups...
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...moreKen Notes: You do not need to read between the lines to realize this is designed to allow more CAFO`s and less regulation. We need to create a set of farm standards that take into account the impact of large industrial farms and allow family farms to compete. This is also an economic issue as small farms are not represented by many of the farm groups who are now funded by larger farms. I will once again suggest that digestor systems are now available that will produce a marketable gas product and can be used to heat the effluent to remove the pathogens that are now entering our wells, streams, and waterways...
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