In the final item of Tuesday morning’s Morgan County Commissioners meeting, the commissioners approved amendments related to Confined Animal Feeding Operations [CAFOs].The item was a public ...

Iowa has thousands fewer square miles than Nebraska but it has almost 3,000 more concentrated animal feeding operations. Opponents of the giant facilities argue there are enough. The increase in ...

A proposal to locate an 11-barn confined animal feeding operation with 580,000 Foster Farm chickens in a rural area between Jefferson and Scio prompted some residents to start attending commission ...

A coalition of animal rights groups claims to have gathered more than 37,000 signatures supporting a local ban on confined animal feeding operations.The petition needs to verify 19,000 of those ...

Supporters of Senate Bill 85 are essentially asking the state to stop granting permits for new large “Confined Animal Feeding Operations” until we can better study their effects on the ...

A controversial Eastern Oregon mega-dairy site has been decommissioned at the owner's request. The move is a win for environmental groups who’ve criticized regulators for approving the farm in ...

A coalition of animal rights groups claims to have gathered more than 37,000 signatures supporting a local ban on confined animal feeding operations. Read More.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture defines CAFOs as intensive animal feeding operations in which more than 1,000 animals that are confined for more than 45 days a year, or in the case chickens ...

Our neighbor to the north, Iowa, has permitted over 10,000 confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to ruin 60% of their lakes and streams with toxic waste.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture is asking the public to weigh in on the new rules for confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOS, by July 22 before they are expected to be finalized later ...

VALPARAISO | A confined feeding operation, capable of raising up to 7,000 pigs at a time, is being proposed along Smoke Road in Morgan Township.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture is asking the public to weigh in on the new rules for confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOS, by July 22 before they are expected to be finalized later ...