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Smithfield Foods hog CAFO, Unionville, Missouri, 2013. In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year.
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The AFO classification is meant to apply to all sizes of operations and is the first step in defining an operation as a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are facilities that require federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) water quality permits, irrespective of size.
The farm was asked to submit an application after the DNR found they were over the limit on the number of animals that could be kept on a farm without it being labeled a CAFO, said Tyler Dix, the ...
Farms must apply for the permit a year prior to becoming a CAFO, detailing in the application their manure storage and wastewater treatment facilities, types of outdoor animal lots, feed storage ...
Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]
The non-CAFO livestock farms produce animal waste, animal carcasses and feed waste but this pollution rarely falls under any specific laws. There is no common use term that describes livestock farms that have CAFO pollution potential but have not been detected and officially labeled as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations(CAFOs).