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  2. We've seen the consequences of CAFOs up close. Let's talk ...

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    During the 40 years I, Tom Harkin, served as a representative and senator in the U.S. Congress, I saw up close the transformation of livestock farming from traditional farmer owned and operated ...

  3. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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    Concentrated animal feeding operation. 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. An animal unit is the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of ...

  4. OPINION: Attending to CAFOs has to include support for crop ...

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    The guest essay about it in the Sept. 8 Register, however, seems to suggest that the conference might be weak on the economic causes of CAFOs and the damage to the Iowa farm economy they have ...

  5. Smithfield Foods - Wikipedia

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    Smithfield Foods, Inc., is an American pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia. It operates as an independent subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate WH Group. [ 4 ][ a ] Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company by Joseph W. Luter and his son, the company is the largest pig and pork producer in the ...

  6. Iowa Select Farms - Wikipedia

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    Iowa Select Farms is a pork production operation headquartered in Iowa Falls, the largest in Iowa, and the fourth largest in the United States. [1] It grew in the 1970s, was officially founded in 1992 and as of 2023 produced more than 5 million pigs on 800 CAFOs in 50 Iowa counties. [2]

  7. Conflict over CAFO factory farms comes to metro Milwaukee ...

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    One of many signs in opposition to a proposed large dairy farm is shown Wednesday, March 6, 2024 along Highway 33 in the Town of Trenton outside West Bend, Wisconsin.

  8. Feedlot - Wikipedia

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    Feedlot. A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter. Large beef feedlots are called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in the United States [1] and intensive livestock ...

  9. If we want young Iowans to stay, we need to clean it up and ...

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    Iowa currently has 328 school districts, down from almost 700 in 1959. Eight counties — Polk, Linn, Dallas, Scott, Woodbury, Black Hawk, Johnson and Story — are home to 62 of those school ...