The state`s agricultural lobby says local efforts to regulate CAFOs are illegal
Laketown, Wisconsin, is a rural community of 949 people, spread out among the green fields and ample lakes of the state’s northwestern corner, just over an hour outside of Minneapolis...
...Now, Laketown is at the center of a battle over this rural character, as the town aims to limit pollution from large, industrial livestock farms, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs...
Ken Notes: Follow the money, this will be an uphill battle, and to be honest it will not be won until it is state or federally regulated. As long as deep wells are allowed to convert manure into soup that can be pumped miles from the farm and spread year round, we will have more pollution, less water and an exponential reduction is smaller farms. There are solutions but the upfront costs and lack of regulation have all but eliminated them from consideration.
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