CAFOs and Livestock Waste Management

  1. CAFO General Assembly Committee proposed (SB570):  Study & Propose Approaches
  2. CAFO Bill (SB364) is "alive" and "moving!" (disguised as an add-on amendment to the alternative fuel Senate Bill 156)  (May 9, 2007)
  3. Is SB 364 being resurrected in the House?  (May 4, 2006)
  4. New/revised federal (EPA) regulations on CAFOs
  5. Animal Agriculture Alliance: Current Issues
  6. Minnesota's innovative "county feedlot program" (state DNR delegates to counties)
  7. State Survey of AFO/CAFO Waste & Manure Management Regulations (NASDA)
  8. Iowa DNR CAFO Odor Study (January 2006)
  9. CAFOs:  Local Ordinances (Missouri House Bill 494)
  10. CAFOs: Missouri County Health Ordinances Restricting Concentrated Animal Agriculture
  11. CAFOs: Missouri County Resources Regarding the Impact of Concentrated Animal Agriculture
  12. Nebraska Livestock Waste Management Act
  13. Pork's Impact on Local Communities (Iowa)
  14. Hog Farm & Community Relations (Iowa)
  15. History of Missouri's l996 CAFO state statute:  It was a real struggle
  16. Survey of 50 States:  CAFO Policies (l999)
  17. EPA's CAFO Regulations (December 2002)
  18. Interpretation of EPA's CAFO Regulations
  19. Hog Watch:  Environmental Defense's solutions to hog CAFO problems
  20. Manure Easement
  21. Writing Manure Contracts
  22. Negotiate the Best Manure Agreements and Easements
  23. Nebraska Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning
  24. Manure Application Record Keeping Form (Iowa)
  25. Separation Distances for Land Application of Manure (Iowa)
  26. Missouri's CAFO statute, Chapter 640.700-.758
  27. State Non-Point Source Water Pollution Programs (if and how they regulate CAFOs)
  28. State Survey on Waste & Manure Management Regulations (2001; pdf)
  29. Missouri county health ordinances regulating CAFOs
  30. The Facts About CAFOs, Local Control, and Health Ordinances
  31. Guide to Confronting a CAFO
  32. Environmental Battlefields in Missouri (CAFOs)
  33. Carthage, MO and its struggle with "stink"
  34. Rich man (Richard Branson) commits $3 billion to fight global warming
  35. DNR Guide to Animal Feeding Operations
  36. Missouri map with CAFO's
  37. States with "No More Stringent" (than Federal ) Environmental Laws
  38. EPA study: "Agriculture is the most problematic area for enforcement mechanisms (to control non-point pollution sources)"
  39. NPDES Permitting of CAFOs in Missouri (DNR)
  40. "Old" EPA CAFO regulation (2002/2003):  Definitions of Large & Medium CAFOs
  41. "Proposed Revision" to EPA's CAFO regulation after the Waterkeeper Alliance court case in 2005
  42. When a Factory Farm Comes to Town:  Protecting your Township from Unwanted Development
  43. Model Livestock Zoning Ordinance
  44. Maple Leaf Dairy seeks to expand to 9,000 dairy cows...2 miles from Lake Michigan
  45. Wisconsin DNR prosecutes Maple Leaf Dairy for polluting waters of the state
  46. EPA redefinition of "CAFOs" in proposed regulation
  47. EPA's proposed regulation of "Animal Feeding Operations" (2006)
  48. Benton County (Mora), MO:  Owners ditch hog-farm plan due to neighbors' protest
  49. Premium Standard Farms pays through the nose:  $4.5 million to three neighboring families
  50. Missouri Attorney General's Office says health boards can regulate CAFOs
  51. Group forms to fight hog farm plan
  52. Missouri Circle A Ranch (Randolph County, north of Huntsville) wants to build CAFO for 3,000 cows
  53. Small Indiana town becoming a "bio-town" by converting manure & garbage
  54. Mark Twain Lake area residents fight large hog farm proposal
  55. Working land too costly for next generation of farmers
  56. Study finds costly hog waste alternatives
  57. Big farm limits raise stink with county growers (Shelby County doesn't yet have a county health ordinance on CAFO's)
  58. Macon County Pig producer stirs concern with big plan (8,000 hogs)
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