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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.
We published papers showing that children living on farms with CAFOs had high rates of childhood asthma, and then that rural children living within three miles of a CAFO had increased rates of ...
New farms are required to complete and obtain a license under the livestock operations act, which looks at proper manure storage as well as proper distance away from other farms or dwellings. [7] A mandatory RFID tag is required in every animal that passes through a Canadian feedlot, these are called CCIA tags (Canadian Cattle Identification ...
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 ...
Critics say the CAFOs drive down home values, pollute water and cause harm to the land. Supporters argue they are the key to feeding the world. Massive factory farms called CAFOs are on the rise ...
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]
Big Poultry showed how industrial-scaled farms, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs, produce billions of pounds of waste annually with little oversight.. Duke’s study ...
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.