factory farm

In Historical Move, MPCA Orders EIS on Proposed Factory Farm

August 29, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, EQB and Environmental Review, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
CAFO, dairy, EIS, Environmental Impact Statement, factory farm, hydrogen sulfide, Land Stewardship Project, manure, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, MPCA, Riverview LLP

By Paul Sobocinski, Land Stewardship Project The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s Citizens’ Board ruled this week that Riverview LLP’s proposed 8,850-cow dairy operation in Stevens County must undergo an in-depth Environmental Impact…
A Peek Behind the Curtain

March 19, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
CAFO, factory farm, feedlots, fish kills, lagoons, manure, subsidies, sustainable agriculture, water pollution

It’s refreshing when people in power pull the curtain aside, drop the feel-good rhetoric momentarily and offer a glimpse at what they are really thinking. It’s also a little frightening. After years…
Thief River’s Yuck Mountain

January 30, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
dairy, Excel, factory farm, manure, MPCA

Now that the MPCA has finally gotten around to taking steps to shut down that horrific health hazard that its owner, Excel, chooses to call a dairy farm, neighbors are left to…