ALBANY, Ore. — The Linn County Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 to affirm a 1-mile setback for confined animal feeding operations on June 20, but only for large-scale chicken farms. The vote ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality have issued a confined animal feeding operation permit for J-S Ranch, a planned large chicken farm near Scio. But ...

In a decision some farm groups say could have implications in communities beyond Oregon, Linn County commissioners voted two-to-one Thursday to clarify where new large-scale livestock farms can be ...

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production. Most are raised on an industrial scale, in what are known as "concentrated ...

In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these ...

EAGLE ROCK, Mo. — A permit to construct a 65,000-chicken CAFO a half-mile from Roaring River was issued Friday by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to Ozbun Farms near Eagle Rock in Barry ...

Since 2023, Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, and Newton counties in the southwest corner of Missouri have been targeted for 22 new poultry concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), each concentrating ...

The expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in South Dakota is without a doubt one of the most controversial topics in agriculture. CAFOs are large livestock farms that ...

Large chicken CAFOs accumulate large amounts waste. It releases ammonia and particulate matter, air pollutants that are circulated out of the barns using large fans. Both are associated with adverse ...

The livestock industry in South Dakota — among the state’s largest economic engines — is undergoing a fundamental transformation that may alter farms, farmers and rural communities for generations to ...