Is putting up a new swine barn in southwest Wisconsin national news? With all the important issues facing our world today, it doesn’t seem to be a pressing issue worthy of national media attention. So when the Associated Press released a story about Howard “AV” Roth’s plans to construct a new hog building, he admits he was a little surprised.Roth plans to put up a 5,000-sow, farrow-to-wean building in Crawford County, a region known for its rolling hills and clear trout streams.
Although his permit was approved by the Department of Natural Resources to begin construction, it still found a way to make the news as some residents in Crawford County are concerned that liquid manure could be overapplied to fields as fertilizer and potentially seep into the groundwater, or run off the soil and into streams and rivers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported...
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